MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – It was a first for one Miami-Dade judge: a quadriplegic man facing two counts of battery on a law enforcement officer.
“I’ve truly never seen a case like this,” the judge said.
Although he can’t use his limbs, police say Bryant Amastha struck an officer with his motorized wheelchair.
But the 32-year-old, known on YouTube as recording artist El Valien-T, tells a different story.
“Did you?” Local 10 News reporter Janine Stanwood asked.
“I absolutely did not,” he replied.
Police responded to a dispute between Amastha and his mother at their home in southwest Miami-Dade’s Quail Heights area Wednesday.
According to a police report, when she was arrested, he got agitated.
“The officer, she bumped my…
