Riviera Beach, FL — After his gross incompetence led him to assault an innocent disabled veteran, Sgt. Gary Wilson with the Riviera Beach police department was charged with misdemeanor battery and criminal mischief. However, because police in America are subject to a different set of rules and held to lower standards, Wilson was found not guilty of battery — in spite of the entire assault being recorded.
During the trial, Wilson told the jury that it was James’ fault he assaulted him because he responded with hostility when being accused of a crime he didn’t commit.
“He immediately started cursing me,” Wilson said of James. “I don’t think it was warranted.”
Isiah James is a combat veteran who served two tours in Iraq and one in Afghanistan. During his deployment, James took fire and was hit with a blast from an IED, which left him medically discharged and permanently disabled.
Because of his disability, Florida issued James a handicap hanging tag since he has trouble walking long distances. However, James’ disability was not an issue with Officer Wilson of the Riviera Beach police department.
Upon pulling into a Walgreen’s parking lot last year, James was confronted by this officer who was on a mission to harass. Officer Wilson confronted James and became not only verbally abusive but physically too.
Luckily for James, he recorded the assault.
“Officer, I’m a damned disabled veteran,” James explains to Wilson, who thinks he’s captured some criminal mastermind. However, James is squeaky clean.
While trying to tell Wilson that he is disabled, and his handicap tag is legitimate, Wilson slaps the phone out of his hand subsequently cracking the screen.
After being physically assaulted by Wilson, James proceeds to unleash a verbal lashing fit for its recipient. The resultant video is as infuriating as it is encouraging as James stood his ground and refused to be bullied by this cop who had nothing better to do.
For endangering an innocent man’s life and assaulting him for no reason, officer Wilson will not face consequences. In fact, after proving he is unfit to wear a badge and carry a gun, Wilson remains on the job.
Sadly, the treatment James received is anything but an isolated incident. Veterans are often the targets of police officer aggression.
Last year, we reported on the story of Anthony Hill, 27, who was gunned down by a police officer during a psychotic breakdown. Hill was completely naked and unarmed when he was killed.
Before the Hill incident, a Louisiana cop was indicted after surveillance video showed him gun down an unarmed veteran outside of a West Monroe gas station.
The list goes on.
#1: Deckard To: GrandIsland (#0)
During the trial, (Sgt.) Wilson told the jury that it was James’ fault he assaulted him because he responded with hostility when being accused of a crime he didn’t commit.
Geee - aren't you always lecturing others about "taking personal responsibility"?
Guess that doesn't apply to pigs.
Deckard posted on 2016-05-06 08:36:10 Reply Private Reply
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Stoner posted on 2016-05-06 08:40:23 Reply Private Reply
#3: Vicomte13 To: Deckard (#0)
Vicomte13 posted on 2016-05-06 08:46:22 Reply Private Reply
#4: GrandIsland To: Deckard (#0)
The officer could use some training on how not to let a scumbag get him frustrated enough to cost him his job. All the officer needs to remember is that at the end of the day, he still has a decent paying, respectable job with a PENSION... and that urban Ferguson like zoo animal will still be a scumbag alcoholic without a penny to his name being a lazy shitbird that needs to park as close as a wheelchair user.
GrandIsland posted on 2016-05-06 13:39:44 Reply Private Reply
#5: Deckard To: GrandIsland (#4)
As if that makes any difference. And you KNOW it's an Obama phone just how exactly?
Do you refer to all honorable military veterans this way, or just the ones who stand up to cops?
...and that urban Ferguson like zoo animal will still be a scumbag alcoholic...
Oh - now he's an alcoholic? And you arrived at that conclusion how exactly?
You're a real piece of work assclown.
Deckard posted on 2016-05-06 13:53:39 Reply Private Reply
#6: ConservingFreedom To: Deckard (#0)
So the officer reckoned that it was the iPhone that was the crux of the alleged threat - that a 6-foot-7, 300-pound man was a threat with an iPhone but no threat without?
ConservingFreedom posted on 2016-05-06 14:18:41 Reply Private Reply
#7: GrandIsland To: Deckard (#5)
Why do you assume all military vets are honorable? That's like saying all cops are honorable.... they aren't. The military has their fair share of lazy, worthless CRIMINAL SHIT BAGS... even vets. Thousands upon thousands of bad apple vets. Don't play your bullshit (use the coattails of the military) to gain sympathy for a person you don't even know.
He sounded as bad as the officer, no class. No wonder he parks in handicapped parking spaces and walks like a champ into a liquor store... but wears pants with holes in it and talks like in inner city gang banger.
GrandIsland posted on 2016-05-06 22:07:25 Reply Private Reply