Brain Injury Survivor Tasered by Officers
The plight of a brain injury survivor was illuminated when she was tasered repeatedly by a Norfolk, VA police officer prior to being arrested. Pamela Brown is known locally as the “hula-hoop lady”, a nickname that testifies the extent of her brain injury. Stephen M. Smith, a Hampton, Virginia attorney and founder of The Brain Injury Law Center, which specializes in traumatic brain injury cases, along with Carlton Bennett of Virginia Beach, Va. filed a lawsuit on behalf of Pamela Brown seeking 5 million dollar’s in damages. “Ms. Brown is a brain injury survivor who is regularly seen hula hooping in the area where she was assaulted," said Smith. The suit seeks to compensate Ms. Brown as well as train Norfolk’s officers in understanding traumatic brain injury to prevent this from happening again.
