CalTrain Civil Rights Violation
A public access conflict involving CalTrain and inline skates used for mobility.
- Summary
- Context summary available on this card; transcript not supplied.
- Source
- YouTube
DOCUMENTARY MOBILITY RECORD
Videos and Public Articles
Movement becomes easier to understand when posture, control, route, transportation, transfer, and access interaction can be seen in context.
The collection documents skates used as a non-traditional mobility aid in public life. Each card identifies its source, context, category, and summary status so future records can be added consistently.
How to use the collection
Video Supplies Functional Context
Footage can show active controlled skating, pain-limited transitions, passive passenger transport, boarding, route conditions, and the practical effect of an access decision. It belongs beside the source-linked movement, transportation, route, and documentary record.
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Access and documentary record
Public-System Encounters
These videos show the setting, decision point, and practical mobility question when an unfamiliar aid meets a public rule or transportation system.
BART Civil Rights Violation
A public transit encounter documenting the conflict between equipment category and asserted mobility function.
- Summary
- Context summary available on this card; transcript not supplied.
- Source
- YouTube
HandicapSkater Rides CalTrain and Is Harassed
Transit footage preserving the interaction and mobility-aid context for review.
- Summary
- Context summary available on this card; transcript not supplied.
- Source
- YouTube
Golden Gate Bridge Civil Rights Violation
A public-space encounter showing how visible form can become the focus before individual function is reviewed.
- Summary
- Context summary available on this card; transcript not supplied.
- Source
- YouTube
Movement and transportation
Function in Real Environments
These records show skating, riding, standing, boarding, and public navigation with skates used as a non-traditional mobility aid.
Smart & Final: Shopping, Skating, and Motorcycle Access
A short sequence connecting shopping on skates, rolling to a motorcycle, and leaving without changing footwear.
- Summary
- Context summary available on this card; transcript not supplied.
- Source
HandicapSkater Rides Motorcycle in the Rain
Motorcycle use with skates in an active-control transportation environment.
- Summary
- Context summary available on this card; transcript not supplied.
- Source
- YouTube
Amputee HandicapSkater
Historic movement footage retained from the existing public video collection.
- Summary
- Context summary available on this card; transcript not supplied.
- Source
- YouTube
HandicapSkater Demonstrates Riding BART
Transit demonstration showing mobility-aid use, boarding, and passenger context.
- Summary
- Context summary available on this card; transcript not supplied.
- Source
- YouTube
HandicapSkater Demonstrates Riding CalTrain
A functional transit demonstration in the same system represented in the documentary access record.
- Summary
- Context summary available on this card; transcript not supplied.
- Source
- YouTube
HandicapSkater Demonstrates Riding CalTrain Standing
Standing passenger context that makes posture and body coupling visible.
- Summary
- Context summary available on this card; transcript not supplied.
- Source
- YouTube
HandicapSkater Skating Through the Airport
Route, terminal, transition, and practical travel context in a large public environment.
- Summary
- Context summary available on this card; transcript not supplied.
- Source
- YouTube
Public narrative record
Articles
Original article titles are preserved as publication metadata. Current site terminology uses “inline skates” or “skates” and “non-traditional mobility aid” where appropriate.
- Systemic ADA Discrimination: When Every Sector Denies Your Prosthesis
- Employment Discrimination: Skates Are My Prosthesis -- Not a Toy
- Skates Are My Wheelchair: How I Fought to Ride a Motorcycle With a Disability They Refuse to See
- Denied, Then Accepted: Flying With My Prosthetic Device, Skates
- Housing Discrimination: Skates as Prosthesis Denied by Apartment Management