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Well over a year ago, Texas paramedic was assaulted when BRYAN LAWSON COTTON threw a hydraulic jack from a on overpass onto a Parker County ambulance. Paramedic Donnie Stone was in the passenger side of the ambulance, travelling at approximately 45 miles per hour, and was struck in the face by the jack as it penetrated the windshield. Stone suffered complex facial trauma and a skull fracture and was off work for several weeks. Detectives in Parker County, Texas (west of Fort Worth) caught COTTON and charged him with Aggravated Assault. He received a sentence of 7 years in the Texas Department of Corrections (TDC). But, under Texas law, COTTON is eligible for release from TDC in 6 months (only serving 18 months). In fact, COTTON only arrived at the Texas prison last week (he had been in the Parker County This is wrong! Please help us, your Texas colleagues, fight this injustice. Please send letters of protest to the address below. Sincerely I was wondering if you guys could help me out...you are a national EMS news service that reaches a ton of people in EMS. I was injured last year while on an ambulance in Parker County, TX. I was a victim of an aggravated assault as Bryan Lawson Cotton hurled a hydraulic jack through the windshiled of the ambulance that I was working in. I received a severe laceration and a skull fracture. Send letters to: Raven Kazen, Director RE: Parole Protest Letter for Bryan Lawson Cotton, TDCJ # 01491115, |