Title: Disturbing Video Shows a Cop Brutally Beat a Child for Riding Her Bike, Charges HER with Assualt Source:
Free Thought Project URL Source:http://thefreethoughtproject.com/co ... -riding-bike-mall-parking-lot/ Published:May 14, 2016 Author:Matt Agorist Post Date:2016-05-14 12:42:40 by Deckard Keywords:None Views:29393 Comments:194
Tacoma, WA — On May 24, 2014, 15-year-old Monique Tillman and her brother were riding their bikes when they were stopped and this young girl brutally assaulted by Tacoma Police Officer Jared Williams.
Tillman and her brother had done nothing wrong, and were merely targetted by this ‘public servant’ because they had the unfortunate luck to have crossed paths with him.
As the duo travelled home, they cut through a mall parking lot, as they had done countless times before. However, this time, Officer Williams was in that parking lot, in his full Tacoma Police department uniform, yet off-duty, working as mall security. As the teens travelled through the lot, Williams began pursuit of these hardened criminals and accused them of trespassing.
Knowing they’d done nothing wrong, Monique attempted to explain to the officer that they cut through the parking lot all the time on their way home. However, this tyrant was having nothing of it.
As the duo attempted to ride away from a man whose intentions were clearly unscrupulous, Williams attacked. A recently released surveillance video shows the disturbing scene that unfolded next.
This heroic officer ripped the girl from her bike and slammed her up against a parked car with his hand around her neck. As the child struggled to breathe, this abusive tyrant grabbed her by the hair and flung her around like a rag doll.
Clearly overpowering the small child, half his size, the officer wasn’t satisfied with the damage he’d inflicted so far. So, for good measure, Williams pulled out his taser and sent 50,000 volts into this poor girl.
“He was choking me, grabbed me by my hair and tried to slam my face into the concrete. The next thing I know, I’m on the ground being tased,” Tillman said.
Now face down, tasered, handcuffed and brutalized, Williams stood over his victim like a hunter and his kill. He had protected society from the likes of a dangerous brother and sister riding their bicycles.
Williams then arrested Monique and charged her with resisting arrest and, get this, assault on an officer.
After viewing the surveillance video of the incident, however, all of the charges were thrown out.
Vito de la Cruz, Tillman’s attorney, has filed a lawsuit seeking damages from Officer Williams, the Simon Property Group who owns the Tacoma Mall and Universal Protection Services, the private security company in charge of Tacoma Mall security.
“A child riding a bike should not have to worry that a police officer will stop her without legal cause and brutalize her,” said de la Cruz. “Our communities are weary of another African American child being hurt by unwarranted and excessive police force.”
The Free Thought Project reached out the Tacoma PD to inquire about Williams’ current status and if any disciplinary action had been taken. However, our requests for comment were not returned.
Below is what policing in modern day America has become.
Two Tacoma teenagers have been charged as adults in a shootout near the Tacoma Mall Transit Center that left a 17-year-old boy severely wounded.
Antione Trent and Isaac Miller, both 16, were arraigned Thursday on first- degree assault charges. Both pleaded not guilty, and Court Commissioner Meagan M. Foley set bail at $500,000 for each.
The wounded teen remains in the hospital in critical condition. He underwent his fifth surgery Thursday.
The shooting happened about 2:20 p.m. Saturday on South 47th Street.
Charging papers gave this account:
Miller and the 17-year-old were at the transit center together. Trent arrived on a bus. The teens interacted a few times before the 17-year-old punched Trent, starting a fist fight.
Surveillance footage from the transit center and the bus showed the boys brawling. It then showed Trent lose a shoe and the 17-year-old stoop to pick it up.
Trent pulled out a gun and shot the other teen in the stomach from 5 feet away. Miller and the 17-year-old ran and Trent fired at their backs.
“Miller then clearly pulls a gun out of his waistband and fires three shots in the direction of Trent,” prosecutors allege.
The two continue running and Trent allegedly shoots at them again.
Police found Miller tending to his friend at the scene. A .38-caliber revolver was next to him.
A .380 semiautomatic pistol was found in a trash can in an alley between South Fife Street and a big box store where Trent was seen fleeing.
“The State cannot emphasize enough the extreme danger of these shootings or the stunning nature of the security footage,” deputy prosecutor Jesse Williams wrote in charging documents.
“It is remarkable that no one other than (the 17-year-old) was hit by the gunfire, either civilians at the transit center or motorists on the busy thoroughfare that is South 47th Street.”
Trent has two prior felony convictions and Miller has one, records show.
Two Tacoma teenagers have been charged as adults in a shootout near the Tacoma Mall Transit Center that left a 17-year-old boy severely wounded.
I didn't see either one of the kids riding their bike in the possession of a weapon.
Perhaps you need to look at the video.
Your attempt to portray these two innocent kids as hardened criminals is beyond pathetic, but as we are all well aware, you suffer from a pathological fetish for authority.
Once again - the 15 year old girl riding her bike who was brutally assaulted by police had nothing to do with any shootout.
Your miserable attempt to defend the cops' actions here speaks volumes of your dishonesty and lack of character.
Williams then arrested Monique and charged her with resisting arrest and, get this, assault on an officer.
After viewing the surveillance video of the incident, however, all of the charges were thrown out.
Two Tacoma teenagers have been charged as adults in a shootout near the Tacoma Mall Transit Center that left a 17-year-old boy severely wounded.
Yep, that happened
I didn't see either one of the kids riding their bike in the possession of a weapon.
Neither did I.
Perhaps you need to look at the video.
Nope, once was enough.
Your attempt to portray these two innocent kids as hardened criminals is beyond pathetic, but as we are all well aware, you suffer from a pathological fetish for authority.
Where did I portray two innocent kids as hardened criminals? Really, Deckard … you are never fully aware of anything that happens anywhere. You read what you want to read, only to reinforce your already preformed biases.
Once again - the 15 year old girl riding her bike who was brutally assaulted by police had nothing to do with any shootout.
Of course not.
Your miserable attempt to defend the cops' actions here speaks volumes of your dishonesty and lack of character.
I defended not cops’s actions here. Your snap judgment without due consideration to objective reasons speaks volumes of your biased hatred for cops.
Williams then arrested Monique and charged her with resisting arrest and, get this, assault on an officer.
Yep.
After viewing the surveillance video of the incident, however, all of the charges were thrown out.
