The New York Daily News reports a diabetic man, now confined to a wheelchair after police denied him of insulin, won a $17.5 million judgement against the city yesterday.
Jose Vargas was detained by police in 2006 on a minor drug charge. Vargas was put into a holding cell in Brooklyn without his medication. Vargas is a Type I diabetic. He went without his insulin shots for 58 hours, said his laywer, Seth Harris, despite repeatedly asking the officers. Vargas suffered multiple seizures and went into a coma for eight days.
The $17.5 million is taxpayer-funded and will go to Vargas’ lifetime care in a nursing home.
Lawyers for the city say they will appeal the decision.
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