that's what i thought, she was gonna shoot his azz till the partner stepped in... it's been a looong time since i've seen the beginning of the incident
Posted on 05/19/2014 4:37:00 PM PDT by eccentric
On Mother’s Day Tommy Yancy, father of two, was pulled over for not having a front license plate. What transpired beyond that point is not totally clear, but his injuries resulted in his death. Yancy, 32, was a veteran of both Iraq and Afghanistan.
There has been almost zero media coverage of the incident. A local publication, Imperial Valley Press, offers only a sidenote about his family raising money for his memorial and this:
The 32-year-old Yancy died following an altercation with law enforcement during a traffic stop May 11 in Imperial. The circumstances around the death and the traffic stop are still under investigation by the California Highway Patrol.
A source that wants to remain anonymous has come forward with a video and “WeAreChange” posted it to YouTube on Sunday. The quality of the video leaves a lot to be desired, but a lot of information is provided in the “About Section” of the video:
Tommy Yancy, 32, father of two, was savagely beaten to death by five law enforcement officers during a routine traffic stop near the city of Imperial last Sunday, on Mother’s Day. Yancy, a veteran who suffered from PTSD, served in Afghanistan and Iraq in the 259th Field Service Unit following the 9/11 attacks.
Yancy was stopped on his way to the store after a highway patrol officer spotted a missing front license plate on his vehicle. He was subsequently pulled from his car and attacked by a police K-9 unit, hit by a taser, and attacked by five officers until he succumbed to the beating and died. A witnessed, who filmed the incident, can be heard screaming on the recording: “How long before you guys call an ambulance? Call an ambulance!” According to the source of the video, who asked not to be named, his family has not been permitted to see his body, nor have they been given a cause of death.
A close friend of Yancy described him as “shy, and a comedian” and told me, he was an “excellent dad, who kept in contact with his army buddies every week.” He also enjoyed basketball and loved hip-hop music. His sister-in-law, Jaqueline Hernandez, described him to me as “a very loving guy, loved his kids to death… they were his everything. Very funny down to earth guy, and loved by all”.
Officers claim Yancy swung at an officer and attacked the K-9, however, near the end of the video, posted to YouTube on May 12 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoqvX…), police are seen attempting to revive Yancy while a witness states, “All of this for one guy who wasn’t even resisting arrest,”. The officer is said to have received no serious injuries.
Deputies with the Imperial County sheriff’s department were involved in another shooting last month, which took place on April 18. A teenager, Adrian Parra, was killed by multiple gunshot wounds. An honor roll student from Coachella Valley High School, Parra was described by loved ones as “a good person with great goals in mind.” The Sheriff’s department has refused to reveal whether or not the shooting was captured by one of their patrol car’s dashboard cameras. Two officers involved in the shooting were placed on administrative leave, but have since returned to their duties.
Read more at YouTube…
The witness claims that Yancy did not resist. The police involved, whether it be Imperial County, the California Highway Patrol, or both, will surely offer another story line. We can not assume that this entire account is factual. Maybe he did resist.
However even if he did resist and regardless of the details, it is hard to imagine a scenario in which a routine traffic stop should result in a man being beaten to death. Yet these stories are becoming all too common in today’s world.
To: DariusBane
What new primary stop opportunities are conservatives calling for?
69 posted on 5/19/2014 6:03:28 PM by ansel12
Any reason will do. The last big push was cell phone stops. Try talking about dismantling the current traffic safety laws.
But i see you are offended like a sports homer. Boo hoo.
So you had nothing, you just wanted to rant, and you also seem confused between conservatives and liberals, you must have some weird politics.
i can only wonder why this didnt provoke a (shall we say) discourteous response
Cell phone laws are nothing? Resistance to dismantling existing traffic laws is nothing? I don’t think you know what “nothing” means.
He was teasing a female Highway Patrol who was going to shoot him, as her partner/husband watched from the patrol car, before the LAPD jumped in, it was against them that he did his prison sweep stuff, and then leapt for the throat.
Darius, cell phone laws were pushed by the left, not the right.
Perhaps one way to reduce this with the videos that people are using now. As more and more police incidents are recorded and shared, the more police will be held to account. We don’t want violence from either side.
Unemployment...
Shouldn’t all the police cars around the scene have dashcams? What was on the videos from the police cars?
How long have you been on FR? Plenty of support here. You are pretending that the Law and Order Conservative does not exist. That’s just not true. Willy Horten ads were created specially for that purpose and you tell me i am crazy! Come on. If what you say is true how come i argue with Freepers against DUI checkpoints? How come i argued for years against red light cameras? Argued with conservatives. I argued for years against “extra judicial punishment” as routinely administered by Police. Argued with conservatives and conservative LEO right here on this very website!
that's what i thought, she was gonna shoot his azz till the partner stepped in... it's been a looong time since i've seen the beginning of the incident
Conservatives - No. GOPe, a.k.a. dem lite - probably, but they’d only allocate three cops for the deed. Fiscal discipline dontchaknow.
You are just ranting, seriously “Willy Horten ads”?
Are you Michael Dukakis?
Just on this thread alone people can see that you live in an imaginary and cloudy world, who knows what you see on FR, but we can see that it is whatever you want to see.
Oh dear. You can’t step back and see American Conservatism objectively. I can’t fix that.
I see quite clearly over years and years of advocating for small government and getting push back from conservatives who want a balanced budget, strong military and law and order. That is the American Conservative coalition Reagan and post Reagan. It is what it is.
I was always cool with the balanced budget, the strong military but never cool with the powerful and ever present police.
That’s not super fuzzy nor is it imaginary. Years and years of debate on the issue here at FR.
You know, it has changed a bit. Most of the LEO who used to brag about mag-light migraines have left. I am happy about that.
On this video look at the first 11 seconds or so, and you will see King get up, and make his lunge.
If someone can slow down those first few seconds, and clean them up, it would sure be nice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OauOPTwbqk
King leaps up and goes for Powell's throat, and Powell steps aside and delivers the first blow of the beating.
even that footage has been chopped off... i remember seeing a good 20 seconds before that one starts way back when and you could see her talking to him and tell from the video it was a female, soon as i saw that, i knew it wasn't going to end well for somebody
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