George Patterson, a young, wheelchair-bound African-American man who was arrested by police on suspicion of selling drugs at Second Avenue and Pike Street this past January, has accused two Seattle Police Department officers of planting evidence and physically assaulting him while he was in custody. After bending him over his wheelchair in a choke hold, Patterson says, officers transported him to SPD's West Precinct in downtown Seattle, where Officer Greg Neubert beat him while his partner Michael Tietjen looked on.
