A Florida father and daughter were both arrested last week after they both got caught up in a police encounter at a Save A Lot store in Lakeland; the daughter is now claiming her dad was hospitalised following the arrest.
Joseph Lee, 55, can allegedly barely talk after being detained, according to his daughter, Anjelica Lee, 27 who spoke to NBC News, saying her father, who already had a pacemaker, sustained an acute kindly injury in the encounter and is undergoing dialysis.
She claimed to the outlet that Mr Lee, was accused by a white female employee of stealing a banana, although she explained that he ate a banana on the way to the cashier but still paid for it at the desk. Despite this, the woman allegedly followed Mr Lee outside and continued to accuse him of stealing.
Ms Lee said to NBC came over to see what was going on and confronted the woman, saying she feared for her father’s safety, so she got a bat from the car and approached her, the outlet reported.
While Ms Lee told the outlet she did not threaten the woman with the bat, but the woman proceeded to call the police, and at some point, she got back and sat in her car.