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:29580 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.
Ok,just watched the video and need to point out two things. The girl CLEARLY was trying to ride away on her bicycle when he first grabbed her,and she was CLEARLY resisting arrest when he started tossing her around,choking her,and tasing her.
The most important thing to point out is that HE HAD NO AUTHORITY TO STOP HER TO START WITH. A shopping center parking lot is by definition public property,and he has no legal or moral authority to stop anyone from entering it at any time of the day or night.
Which nullifies the first point about her resisting arrest. He had no right to stop or try to arrest her,so she can't be charged with resisting an illegal arrest.
Officer Cartman was just having one of those "You WILL respect my authoritay!" moments. SOB should be fired and sued by both the city and the girls parents.
Ok,just watched the video and need to point out two things. The girl CLEARLY was trying to ride away on her bicycle when he first grabbed her,
Agreed.
and she was CLEARLY resisting arrest when he started tossing her around,choking her,and tasing her.
Not agreed. Once a cop starts that kind of treatment, even if it's warranted which in this case sure appears it was not, the person being so attacked is not legally liable for any kind of resistant or defensive action. Or shouldn't be. That is a completely natural and instinctive survival response. Only if they do something criminal BEFORE being treated like that should they be charged with resisting and/or assault. That's common sense, if common sense should ever apply in these cases.
The most important thing to point out is that HE HAD NO AUTHORITY TO STOP HER TO START WITH. A shopping center parking lot is by definition public property,and he has no legal or moral authority to stop anyone from entering it at any time of the day or night.
I think technically it is not public property, but rather, a place of public accommodation. But the difference is moot in this case.
I suspect "Mall security" has less authority to stop and apprehend than does a law enforcement officer. Insofar as this cop was not a "law enforcement officer" when working privately at the mall, he was not acting in the capacity of law enforcement. How much more limiting the authority granted is, we don't know. But that the police dept is not being sued in the case is evidence enough that the cop was not acting in the capacity of law enforcement.
Which nullifies the first point about her resisting arrest. He had no right to stop or try to arrest her,so she can't be charged with resisting an illegal arrest.
That's the way it should be. But the resisting charge was apparently tossed out, so the PTB's either agree with you or didn't see her resisting.
Officer Cartman was just having one of those "You WILL respect my authoritay!" moments. SOB should be fired and sued by both the city and the girls parents.
From the video he appears to love power trips and throwing his (and the girl's) weight around. That's probably why he decided to become a cop.
Once a cop starts that kind of treatment, even if it's warranted which in this case sure appears it was not, the person being so attacked is not legally liable for any kind of resistant or defensive action. Or shouldn't be.
You are consistent in what you want the law to be, but you are consistently wrong. She is required to comply with the commands of the officer. He may escalate his force to whatever it takes to force her compliance. Resisting the officer in his duties is not self-defence.
You are consistent in what you want the law to be, but you are consistently wrong.
I'm not wrong in what I want the law to be. I think I can speak authoritatively on that.
She is required to comply with the commands of the officer. He may escalate his force to whatever it takes to force her compliance.
But not beyond that needed, which from the video certainly seems to be the case here, and apparently the cause of the civil case now filed against the officer, the mall, et al.
Resisting the officer in his duties is not self-defence.
If the officer grabs a girl's hair and starts throwing her around that way, then the girl can hardly be held responsible for whatever action she takes in her own self-defense from that point forward, such as grabbing the guards hands. Expecting her to suffer through pain and possibly serious injury by not taking any instinctive self-protective measures is surely ludicrous. And I don't think that's a subjective statement.
But not beyond that needed, which from the video certainly seems to be the case here
No, it does not appear so. The officer did not strike her and did not choke her. The filed Complaint specifies no physical injury whatever, but where the taser struck must have left a mark. She unlawfully tried to flee and resisted. He overcame her resistence with the taser. She could have complied at any time.
the girl can hardly be held responsible for whatever action she takes in her own self-defense from that point forward
She can be held responsible for whatever she does to resist. It is unlawful resistance, not self-defence. The only reason any force was being used was her resistance. After the taser, the officer stood aside and mall security handcuffed her.
She unlawfully tried to flee and resisted. He overcame her resistence with the taser. She could have complied at any time.
We'll have to agree to disagree on this.
The officer clearly threw her to the ground with his left hand firmly holding her hair. The taser followed. In sum, it easily appeared to me as excessive force, and apart from what did appear to be an attempt by the girl to leave the scene, there is no obvious move of resistance to me through the rest of the ordeal. That all charges were dropped reinforces that observation.
It is unlawful resistance, not self-defence.
They may call it that in a court of law, but that doesn't mean in real life, people have not been killed by police because they could not breath under the weight of several cops standing on top of them, chocking them, and/or beating them. It has happened as you know. Ergo, those people who died certainly had a natural right to self-defense against the excessive acts of the police. Obviously we can see that most clearly in hindsight, but if it's there in hindsight, it still means it was there and is there.
Obviously the courts will be slow to find innocent as a matter of self defense anyone harming a police officer while knowing it was a police officer. But if a cop can kill out of reasonable fear for his own life, then that right has to apply to citizens as well. And the more cops are trained to shoot at the slightest provocation, the more reason informed citizens have to be fearful of cops who point guns at them.
