Seriously. Just WTF were these assholes thinking?
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.
All this is according to a lawsuit filed in Galveston federal court by Milburn against the officers. The lawsuit alleges that the officers thought Dymond, an African-American, was a hooker due to the “tight shorts” she was wearing, despite not fitting the racial description of any of the female suspects. The police went to the wrong house, two blocks away from the area of the reported illegal activity, Milburn’s attorney, Anthony Griffin, tells Hair Balls.
After the incident, Dymond was hospitalized and suffered black eyes as well as throat and ear drum injuries.
There is no excuse for this. None whatsoever. Firings and jail time all the way around.
Most likely a “prostitution task force” involved.
The entire “task force” (read: wolf pack) way of doing business in police departments must end.
These “task farces” cut the chain of command and operate largely on their own as little autonomous units within the PD, so no one in command knows what they are doing, minute by minute.
This is the result of that way of doing business.
I hope that she also sues the officers involved and their supervisors – all the way to the Chief – personally for civil rights violations under Section 1983.
Hit the MF’ers in the pocket, that’s how you stop this crap from happening in the future.
Umm went to the source and the above media report is not quite what it seems. There has already been one investigation of the actions and found for the police. Does not mean they can’t win at civil trail but the “outrage” needs to be tempered with facts. But hey the police are second class citizens in this country now. Held to higher standards that only a psychic could meet and used a scape goats for any interest group that has a complaint to thug politicans get away with murder. All cops need three weeks off a year, at the same time.
Even if the girl shook her booty at the undercover cop, he should have waited for the actual perp he was looking for.
I just wonder how many burglars, robbers and car clouters did their dirty work while this “team” was out doing THEIRS.
Sulaco2:
The city (who is ultimately liable for Police Officer conduct) found that it’s employees did nothing wrong, which sounds an awful lot like the city covering it’s own ass to avoid admitting fault and automatically losing any civil action.
Yes cops are held to an extremely high standard, because when they screw up, lives are ruined at best, or ended at worst. The power of arrest is a massive responsibility, and while no one expects them to be perfect, we do expect them to demonstrate a degree of common sense greater than the lowest of criminal thugs. Three cops dragging off a twelve year old girl from her yard is inexcusable, no matter what. Prostitutes don’t start screaming “Daddy, Daddy” when someone grabs them.
If thats what happened, unfortunately most here pre judge and want to find a reason to find them at fault without trial. Same as the Seattle Troxski Times and Pravda Intellegencer. Maybe as I said they will pay in civil court, maybe they were completely wrong, but YOU don’t know, But you have judged and decided based on your dis likes and NEED to find them at fault. I have been on the wrong end of “investigations” by folks who pre-decided the issue according to thier bias. Nothing new here you are still going on media reports not the facts of the case and IMHO never will.
Sorry Sul, if they cannot explain where else this 12yr old got two black eyes other than in police custody, the “outrage” has standing.
FYI, I spoke to a few former and current LEOs I know and they can’t seem to find too much pity for the officers in this story.
I was half tempted to give the police officers a little bit of doubt until I read this:
“Three weeks later, according to the lawsuit, police went to Dymond’s school, where she was an honor student, and arrested her for assaulting a public servant. Griffin says the allegations stem from when Dymond fought back against the three men who were trying to take her from her home.”
And then read the police lawyers response:
“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.”
Nail ’em to the fucking wall, and their greasy ass lawyer as well.
Still going on what you want to beleave, not on any facts of the case. No change there….don’t expect any.
Sulaco2:
“Nothing new here you are still going on media reports not the facts of the case and IMHO never will”
The problem is the media reports are all we usually have to go on as the police rarely make it easy for the public to view the results of internal reviews. So I have no choice but to take the media’s word, and maybe the judgment or settlement in a criminal or civil trial (provided the judgment or settlement is not sealed, as many are).
And I still have a hard time wrapping my head around why three grown MEN (trained in techniques to restrain other violent men) found the need to violently beat a 12 year old GIRL. Unless 12 year old Dymond was weighing in at 120 lbs and the JV football team was eyeing her up for a spot as a defensive tackle, these guys not only crossed the line, but they left it so far behind themselves that they deserve to lose their badges (they can toss them in the same waste pit they left their honor).
Nor should you expect any, Sul, until you cough up some of your hyper-secret “facts”.
Pray tell, with they reveal just how a 12yr old gets a pair of black eyes and esophagus damage, as though she’s been put into a chokehold, if not given as such by the officers in question?
Will they explain exactly what a 12yr old is supposed to think of multiple men piling out of a van, running towards her and then dragging her back to the van?
Or maybe these “facts” will tell us all about her M3 Greasgun that screams “Daddy! Daddy!” which the officers were obviously so threatened by that they felt the need to tackle and violently restrain a child while dragging her off without contacting anyone in the house she was obviously in front of?
No, I’m sure these “facts” will probably tell me none of these things and instead will read exactly like the well rehearsed police report. The same report that “The City” used to absolve these officers and then used to have a 12yr old Honor Student arrested for resisting.
Sorry, Sul, but this thing stinks like week old fish and/or the hookers that these officers were supposed to have nabbed (but after wraslin’ with this child, were probably too tuckered out to bother with, eh?). Bring on your hidden knowledge and answer some questions.
I know that 99% of complaints filed against the constabulary are compete and utter BS, with the paper they’re written on worth less than used ass wipe. But so far, no one, including yourself, has offered any verifiable info contrary to the published story.
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