Epilepsy Talk

Read this and weep… 

“She was having a seizure. Police shocked her with a taser…”

This is the story of how an Alabama teen sought justice after a violent police encounter upended her life.”

RAINBOW CITY, Ala. — Seventeen-year-old Tiara Helm danced and bobbed her head to the music, swaying among hundreds of concert-goers packed inside a theater in this small city northeast of Birmingham.

Rapper Kevin Gates electrified the crowd as strobe lights pulsed.

Suddenly, Helm collapsed. Her body convulsed…

Her head thrashed against the concrete floor…

Read this and weep…

“She was having a seizure. Police shocked her with a taser.

This is the story of how an Alabama teen sought justice after a violent police encounter upended her life…