Cops Mistake 12-Year-Old Girl for Prostitute
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Stumble This"It was a little before 8 at night when the breaker went out at Emily Milburn's home in Galveston. She was busy preparing her children for school the next day, so she asked her 12-year-old daughter, Dymond, to pop outside and turn the switch back on.
As Dymond headed toward the breaker, a blue van drove up and three men jumped out rushing toward her. One of them grabbed her saying, "You're a prostitute. You're coming with me."
Dymond grabbed onto a tree and started screaming, "Daddy, Daddy, Daddy." One of the men covered her mouth. Two of the men beat her about the face and throat.
As it turned out, the three men were plain-clothed Galveston police officers who had been called to the area regarding three white prostitutes soliciting a white man and a black drug dealer."
From: http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2008/12/galveston_false_arrest.php
As Dymond headed toward the breaker, a blue van drove up and three men jumped out rushing toward her. One of them grabbed her saying, "You're a prostitute. You're coming with me."
Dymond grabbed onto a tree and started screaming, "Daddy, Daddy, Daddy." One of the men covered her mouth. Two of the men beat her about the face and throat.
As it turned out, the three men were plain-clothed Galveston police officers who had been called to the area regarding three white prostitutes soliciting a white man and a black drug dealer."
From: http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2008/12/galveston_false_arrest.php
The culture of police support has been known since the first sheriff's were sworn in.
They are not held to the same standard as all other citizens. They should be. Because they are lawmen, they should suffer the full extent of the law.
Had they sent a cruiser over to the girls house it would have been a different story.
Instead they went all wacko on them. This happened in Texas, they are lucky the father, or mother didn't come out with a Semi Auto and wipe every one in the van out. I do not mean that as a joke, although it does sound like a joke.
Update: This is from the officers' lawyer, William Helfand:
Both the daughter and the father were arrested for assaulting a peace officer. "The father basically attacked police officers as they were trying to take the daughter into custody after she ran off."
Also, "The city has investigated the matter and found that the conduct of the police officers was appropriate under the circumstances," Helfand says. "It's unfortunate that sometimes police officers have to use force against people who are using force against them. And the evidence will show that both these folks violated the law and forcefully resisted arrest."
I usually denounce violence and hope for peaceful solutions, but in this case I can honestly say that I hope some gun crazed vigilante shoots all 3 of those cops in the face. Maybe if cops started fearing the public, they wouldn't choose to act so heavy handed in the future.
I expect this comment to get downvoted to hell because of the above statement, but I sincerely mean it. The police are getting out of control in this country and no one is doing a damn thing about it.
http://www.galvnews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=85aa1df1635a3bbb
Police claim they identified themselves and wore badges and shirts emblazoned with the word "Police". They also claim she shouted "I hate the police" as they tried to detain her.
Still, I couldn't find anything indicating why they tried to grab her in the first place, considering she was not three white prostitutes. Strictly speaking, if the police try to arrest you, even when it is obvious they have the wrong person, citizens are required to cooperate. The jury deadlocked, which probably means 3 people refused to convict her because she should not have been put in that position in the first place. And I have to agree. If they convict her of assaulting a police officer, which technically she did, then she would never be able to successfully sue the police department for wrongful arrest. And they sorely need to be found guilty on that count.
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The culture of police support has been known since the first sheriff's were sworn in.
They are not held to the same standard as all other citizens. They should be. Because they are lawmen, they should suffer the full extent of the law.
Had they sent a cruiser over to the girls house it would have been a different story.
Instead they went all wacko on them. This happened in Texas, they are lucky the father, or mother didn't come out with a Semi Auto and wipe every one in the van out. I do not mean that as a joke, although it does sound like a joke.
It's funny because, from her perspective, they would have had every right to do it as well. Well not so much funny, as horrible.
maybe the parents had been planning on her being a prostitute/poledancer anyway...
the cops just went all Minority Report on her, for crimes she committed in the future as a prostitute.
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on a more serious note, yeah, it seems all the cops ever have to do is come up with a seemingly plausible story, and are somehow infallible for the crimes they themselves commit.
I find myself a little surprised at saying that, especially considering the girl is presumably okay, but when this sort of shit is happening in the United States of America, a strong message needs to be sent.
I knew this couldn't be as simple as the guy in the video makes it sound.
http://www.galvnews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=85aa1df1635a3bbb
Police claim they identified themselves and wore badges and shirts emblazoned with the word "Police". They also claim she shouted "I hate the police" as they tried to detain her.
Still, I couldn't find anything indicating why they tried to grab her in the first place, considering she was not three white prostitutes. Strictly speaking, if the police try to arrest you, even when it is obvious they have the wrong person, citizens are required to cooperate. The jury deadlocked, which probably means 3 people refused to convict her because she should not have been put in that position in the first place. And I have to agree. If they convict her of assaulting a police officer, which technically she did, then she would never be able to successfully sue the police department for wrongful arrest. And they sorely need to be found guilty on that count.
For the record I'm not arguing against the author of this quote above, I am noting the usefulness of the evidence at hand.
Three cops say they wore the gear, however two private citizens say they didn't? So we assume that the officers are telling the truth and the citizens are lying. Or we assume that the officers were lying and the citizens were telling the truth.
Its a 50% chance that one group was lying. However justice should not deal in chance. Chance means there will be collateral damage.
If three dudes jumped out of a van and tried to grab my daughter, I would try my damnedest to kill every single one of them, with my bare hands if I had to. If they started yelling about being cops but had no uniforms, I doubt I'd stop trying. And I wouldn't feel bad about it.
Damn right.
fight back.