A California man claims in a lawsuit that police officers falsely arrested him and used excessive force after he crashed his car into a 20-foot ditch while having a seizure.Jack Bruce filed the lawsuit Friday in the U.S. Northern District of California against the Hercules Police Department and the three cops involved in the April 1 incident. Bruce had just visited his grandmother and was driving home when, for the first time in his life, he suffered a seizure. He slowly drove off the road and down into a 20-foot embankment. Two other drivers, who saw he was having a seizure went to his aid, called 911 and relayed to dispatchers what had transpired.

Police and firefighters arrived on the scene and began to assess the situation, body camera footage obtained by Law&Crime showed. Bruce, then 21, looked barely conscious and could not coherently answer first responders’ questions.

“He’s having a seizure, just let him be,” instructed Officer Joshua Goldstein.

But that mindset changed.

“The defendants were trained and knew that the last thing an officer should do when dealing with a seizure victim is restrain him, because seizure victims often react instinctively to physical contact,” the lawsuit said. “Ignoring this training, they repeatedly poked, prodded, shook, and yelled at Plaintiff, ordering him to leave his car.”

Things escalated from there.

Officers berated him with “Get out of the car” and “We wanna help you, but do not f—ing fight” and “You will get f—ing ripped out of this car.” Bruce seemed confused and had to be pulled out of the car, the video showed.

Bruce’s lawyers say the California Commission on Police Officer Standards and Training expects cops to follow a set of protocols on how to deal with someone in the throes of a seizure.

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