Science teacher's brush with police ends in heart attack, Police say nice acting

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Lester Jacob, 50, is a mild mannered Earth Science teacher at James Madison High School in Midwood, New York. He was driving in his White Infiniti car back to home and heard siren sounds and police lights, so he pulled over to let the police car go by him. The police were on the lookout for a hit and run driver. But instead the police car stopped near his car and pointed their guns at his head.

The police ordered Jacobs out of the car and cuffed his hands. One officer crushed his knee into Jacob’s back and then repeatedly slammed his head onto the car and then pressed his head against the car for some period of time. Because of this sudden attack on him, a nervous Jacob felt chest pains.

Additional officers soon arrived at the scene with a witness to the hit and run accident. The witness told the police officers that Jacob was the wrong guy.

"'I told you it was a white Maxima,'" the witness reportedly said.

Instead of following a white Maxima, the police followed a white Infiniti and the wrong guy.

The police then let Jacob go, but Jacob started experiencing chest pains and began to cough uncontrollably. Instead of helping Jacob, a female cop told him, “nice acting” and drove off. He somehow managed to drive home, stopped the car to vomit on the side of the road before he reached home safely.

His wife took him to the hospital, and the doctors found out that Jacob had suffered a heart attack. In July, he underwent an open heart surgery.

"I was scared to death," Jacob said of his brush with the NYPD. "I was feeling terror."

Jacob has filed a lawsuit against the Police in the Brooklyn Federal Court. John Lambros, his attorney said the cops used excessive force against the 150 pound teacher; they should have waited for the witness to show up.

A spokeswoman for the city Law Department said the complaint is being reviewed. But I doubt they will do anything against the officers.

Why the police force have to use brutality with every person they encounter, if the person is yielding then they should control themselves instead of using excessive force every time. It is always the good people get punished.