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California Federal Jury Awards $217,784 to Diabetic Bodybuilder Beaten by Police

Loaded on Feb. 15, 2012

Filed under: Medical, Diabetes, False Arrest, Excessive Force (Police). Location: California.

A San Francisco federal jury awarded $217,784 to a bodybuilder who police beat while he was in life-threatening insulin shock.

Doug Burns, who suffers from Type I (juvenile-onset) diabetes, won the Natural Mr. Universe bodybuilding competition in 2006. In 2007 he was at the Century 20 Theater in Redwood City, …

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