A Bay Area law firm that bills itself as “Lawyers For The People” has announced the filing of a civil rights lawsuit against five Alameda County sheriff’s deputies and described the case in dramatic fashion.  

According to the lawyers at the firm Pointer & Buelna LLP, “A hospitalized woman waiting for a CT scan to diagnose a potential head injury was punched in her head several times, grabbed by the throat and slammed onto a hospital bed by Alameda County sheriff’s deputies, who were laser focused on hauling her to jail without providing her with federal mandated screening.” 

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Joe Dworetzky is a second career journalist. He practiced law in Philadelphia for more than 35 years, representing private and governmental clients in commercial litigation and insolvency proceedings. Joe served as City Solicitor for the City of Philadelphia under Mayor Ed Rendell and from 2009 to 2013 was one of five members of the Philadelphia School Reform Commission with responsibility for managing the city’s 250 public schools. He moved to San Francisco in 2011 and began writing fiction and pursuing a lifelong interest in editorial cartooning. Joe earned a Master’s in Journalism from Stanford University in 2020. He covers Legal Affairs and writes long form Investigative stories. His occasional cartooning can be seen in Bay Area Sketchbook. Joe encourages readers to email him story ideas and leads at joe.dworetzky@baycitynews.com.