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Have You Met: Anna Garcia overcomes a difficult childhood
She cares about her father, but not like a daughter; we don t have that kind of relationship
Lisa Miller
If you’ve spent much time at the Crawford County Courthouse, you’ve probably seen Anna Garcia walking up the ramp, arms full of files for her job as a title examiner. After work, she goes to the home she loves on the southeast side of Bucyrus or to Fremont to visit family.
You might not know she spent her younger years visiting her aunt at the Weaver Hotel. Or she talks to her dad on the phone at least once a week and visits him in prison. Ralph Garcia Sr. has been incarcerated since he murdered her mother in 1986.
Revoke police license to kill disabled people!
By Edward Yudelovich posted on February 1, 2021
People with untreated mental illness are 16 times more likely to be killed during a police encounter than other civilians approached or stopped by law enforcement, according to a study released December 2015 by the Treatment Advocacy Center. Disability rights journalist David M. Perry, whose son has Down syndrome, documented in research for the Ruderman Family Foundation that as many as half of all people killed by police have a disability. (tinyurl.com/y7hau3fu)
Eric Parsa, right, is seen with his mother, Donna Lou, center, and father, Daren Parsa.
A lawsuit against a Louisiana sheriff and seven deputies says deputies sat on and kept a chokehold on a shackled, obese, severely autistic 16-year-old for nine.
The suit, filed in New Orleans by Donna Lou and her husband, Daren Parsa, says they had to watch as their only child, Eric Parsa, suffocated in a shopping center parking lot in suburban Metairie on Jan. 19, 2020. The allegations in the lawsuit include excessive force and violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
“We are private people . but we understand that sharing Eric s story is the only way to bring change,” Lou said, weeping as she read a statement during a news conference on Zoom. Because she and her husband are witnesses, they could not answer questions, attorneys said.
Eric regularly played laser tag, which he enjoyed. But after the Jan. 19, 2020, session at the Metairie strip mall, he went into a “melt-down” and began slapping himself and slapping and grabbing his father, biting his father hard enough to draw blood, according to the lawsuit.
A lawsuit against a Louisiana sheriff and seven deputies says deputies sat on and kept a chokehold on a shackled, obese, severely autistic 16-year-old for nine.