"He is suing because he has more than $100,000 in medical bills from the episode, he said."
Another day and another ungrateful greedy Trump supporter is in the news. This one is an alt-right Polish freak that was on vacation in America and had a bipolar manic episode and tried to drown himself in the pool staying underwater for more than 2 minutes.
The cops saved him and he's suing because he feels they could have saved him better
Man who tried to drown himself in pool is suing the people who pulled him out
When he was made assistant manager of a pool in Fairfax, Virginia, two years ago, Mateusz Fijalkowski spoke barely any English and did not know how to swim.
In the United States from Poland on a summer program, Fijalkowski spent most of his time here hospitalized after nearly drowning in that pool. Now Fijalkowski, 23, is suing the police officers and lifeguard who pulled him out.
Often police are sued for being too aggressive with mentally ill people; in this instance, they are accused of not doing enough to stop a man in the midst of a bipolar episode.
Fijalkowski was left underwater for more than two minutes, he says in a lawsuit filed in the Eastern District of Virginia on Friday, while eight police officers watched and stopped a lifeguard from jumping in to help. Police contend that the officers acted appropriately to both save him and protect the lifeguard and themselves from a disturbed person.
When the lifeguard did pull him out, according to his lawsuit, Fijalkowski had stopped breathing and had no pulse.
"The police allowed me to sink before their eyes," Fijalkowski said in an email, in Polish. "I'm glad that in the end they realized that they shouldn't let me drown, but I don't thank them for letting me die, clinically, before their eyes."
He is suing because he has more than $100,000 in medical bills from the episode, he said.
Police are incredulous.
"They saved his life - he did not die," Fairfax County Police Chief Edwin Roessler said in an interview. "You're going to sue someone for saving your life?"
Roessler said that had officers or the lifeguard gone in earlier, they might have gotten dragged under the water themselves.
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