Wow. I'm floored. Not every diabetic experiencing hypoglycemia in a pubic place becomes a victim of police brutality. A Texas woman with diabetes was recently discovered in her car on the side of a road by a police deputy. She was incoherent, talking to herself. No, the deputy did not drag her in to the station for DUI. Constable's Deputy Russell Whitton, intelligent guy, realized something was up and used the lady's cell phone to call the most recently missed call. This put him in touch with a relative, and he was able to establish that the lady had been reported missing, is diabetic, and was about to go into shock. The deputy gave her LifeSavers to help raise her blood sugar and called for an ambulance. .

In the course of blogging for TDB I've read I-don't-know-how-many news stories about diabetics being manhandled by police during hypo episodes. The typical scenario is this: person's blood sugar drops. Person sways, loses way, crashes car, acts incoherent or all of the above. Cops are called or happen along. Cops mistakenly assume symptoms are due to drunkenness or a drug-induced high. So they proceed to arrest said innocent citizen, who may resist, sparking actions of police brutality. The most recent high-profile case involved "Mr. Natural Universe," Doug Burns.

And then this story came along. Just when I was becoming super-cynical and irreversibly biased against the police, too. Aww. Thanks, Deputy Whitton!