‘Deliberate Indifference’: Amazon Worker Went Blind After Missouri Cops Mistook His Stroke for DUI and Detained Him for 8 Hours, Lawsuit States

‘Deliberate Indifference’: Amazon Worker Went Blind After Missouri Cops Mistook His Stroke for DUI and Detained Him for 8 Hours, Lawsuit States

An Amazon worker is suing a Missouri sheriff’s office for detaining him for nearly eight hours under the suspicion that he was drunk driving when he was actually suffering a stroke. Paul Espinosa, 54, and his wife filed the lawsuit against Greene County Sheriff Jim Arnott, several deputies and detention officers, as well as a nurse and a doctor, alleging that these individuals did not provide him with timely medical treatment when he suffered a …