A disabled woman was recently harassed in the state of Oregon after cops accused her of driving a mobility scooter without any sign of a helmet, on a sidewalk.
Jennifer Gayman suffers from a wide range of disabilities which include degenerative eye disease as well as a pulmonary disease and asthma too. Moreover, she also suffers from severe forms of back pain that relate to her lumbar degeneration disease. Other than that, her peripheral neuropathy also results in severe forms of numbness as well as weakness in both her hands and her feet.
Due to all of these conditions, Jennifer Gayman says that she was left with no chance of getting a driver’s license that would potentially be valid. Therefore, now, Jennifer claims that her only sign of hope and reliance is her mobility scooter which she uses to experience a life of somewhat normalcy.
But recently, to her great dismay, Jennifer got caught up in a sticky mess with a couple of the state’s police officers whom she has reportedly sued for harassment.
On her way back to her home one night, Jennifer claims two cops from Brookings stopped her while accusing her of making use of her scooter on the sidewalk. In addition, they accused her of failing to walk the scooter across the crosswalk while failing to wear a safety helmet too.
In the end, all of the accusations resulted in Gayman explaining to the cops that she was severely disabled, while also outlining the points that relate to her rights as a disabled person. Despite all of her efforts, the officers just refused to listen and went on citing her for a number of different offenses.
Now, Gayman says that she is awaiting the verdict for the lawsuit that she filed as the officers also conducted a slow-speed chase, to her home, where they got a hold of her and arrested her. The officers restrained her in her own garage, charging her for fleeing the police.
Later on, she was convicted and then sentenced to live in jail for five days for her attempts at fleeing the police.
But just this week, the state’s Appeals Court reversed her conviction, mentioning how she should never have been given the conviction of making attempts to flee an officer. With that said, it’s still unclear whether or not Oregon will make appeals for the reversal.