‘Don’t Push Me!’: California Deputy Loses Job After His Impatient Response to 71-Year-Old Woman’s Questions Ends with Her on the Pavement and Three Months of Hospitalization
John Siamoutas’ life changed last October, when he became his elderly mother’s caretaker. Aurinia Thimmhardy, 71, had suffered a broken femur and needed surgery after she was shoved to the ground, without provocation, by a younger man. She spent three months in the hospital and was released in January. During that time, Thimmhardy’s husband became…