School bus driver cited for DUII sues police, saying officers mistook stroke symptoms

A man pulled over while driving a school bus with passengers and issued a DUII citation by Springfield police has alleged in a false arrest lawsuit he instead had symptoms of a stroke.

Michael Fiock, in a lawsuit filed Monday, Aug. 24, in Lane County Circuit Court, seeks up to $100,000.

Fiock also asks for a judge’s order requiring the Springfield Police Department to “establish training for its police officers sufficient to enable them to distinguish the difference between impairment by intoxicants and symptoms of a stroke.”…

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