Bet This Doesn't Happen to White Teachers

by Steven D
Mon Oct 8th, 2007 at 09:20:35 PM EST

A 150 pound African American high school science teacher in Brooklyn suffers a heart attack and requires open heart surgery because of police brutality after (dare I say it?) driving while black:

When the violent encounter was over, Lester Jacob, 50, suffered a heart attack and was left on his own in the street by cops, who accused him of "acting." In July he underwent open-heart surgery. [...]

Jacob, an earth science teacher at James Madison High School in Midwood, heard a siren, looked in his rear-view mirror and dutifully pulled over for the radio car behind him. He wasn't prepared for what happened next. Two officers rushed up to Jacob's vehicle and pointed their guns at his head, according to a lawsuit filed in Brooklyn Federal Court.