A man with a disability says his civil rights were violated when he had an emergency situation last week at Columbia College and was denied access to a bathroom at the facility.
Two strokes left Jose Palencia paralyzed on this left side of his body, and while he was visiting the school last week, he was denied use of a bathroom. He says he ultimately defecated on himself, and says school officials didn't so much as offer him anything to clean himself up with.“Can you imagine how humiliated my father felt at that time?" cried Jennifer Santoyo."That’s humiliating! No one should ever have to go through something like that!”Sign up for NBC Chicago newsletters.
Santoyo’s father, Jose Palencia, is disabled and walks with a cane. He had just dropped his son off at Columbia when nature called. Instead of providing bathroom accommodations, he claims security threatened him with legal action.
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