Two Law Enforcement Officers Get Their Just Dues...
Rational Nation U S A Purveyor of Truth Orlando Sentinel - Screaming in pain with a ruptured spleen that would have to be removed in an emergency surgery, Robert Liese cried out for medical attention 35 times in a downtown Orlando holding cell. He was laying on the ground with his hands and feet bound. Despite an Orlando police officer hearing Liese's pleas for help, he was ignored for nearly two hours. For their actions, or lack of actions, Orlando police Officer Peter Delio and Sgt. William Faulkner were fired from the department on Wednesday. The incident unfolded on Aug. 12, 2014, when Liese, 41, was arrested along Orange Avenue for allegedly not paying a $60 bar tab and taken to a substation on Washington Avenue. An apparently drunk and handcuffed Liese broke a glass window on a cell door after he banged his head on it. Delio walked into the cell and allegedly kneed Liese in the abdomen so hard that it ruptured his spleen. Faulkner also did not respond to Li...