Posted on 02/21/2017 5:29:38 AM PST by simpson96
Vickie Williams-Tillman is pictured on the right. (Baton Rouge Police Department)
Authorities said a Louisiana woman “made a big difference” Sunday when she jumped on a suspect’s back to save a police officer from a brutal beatdown.
Vickie Williams-Tillman, 56, was being hailed as a hero, The Advocate reported. Williams-Tillman was driving to a store, listening to gospel music on her radio, when she spotted the Baton Rouge officer and the suspect.
Baton Rouge police spokesman Sgt. L’Jean McKneely said the suspect grabbed the officer’s baton and repeatedly bashed him on the head with it, and also tried to grab the officer’s gun.
"I could see in his eyes he needed help," Williams-Tillman told The Advocate. "You don't have time to think about it … I did what God needed me to do."
Police said the officer found 28-year-old Thomas Bennett asleep inside his vehicle with drug paraphernalia out in the open at around 8 a.m. Bennett became aggressive after he exited his vehicle and that’s when the squabble started.
Soon at Williams-Tillman jumped on the man’s back, police backup arrived and the suspect was apprehended after being shot with a stun gun. The 44-year-old officer was not identified.
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the suspect grabbed the officer’s baton and repeatedly ...bashed him on the head with it, and also tried to grab the officer’s gun...
...exited his vehicle and that’s when the squabble started...
Squabble? Really?
I’m guessing that the cop didn’t shoot the guy out of fear of being called a “racist” and being put thru the wringer by the media. Essentially, the cop decided that it was better for him to be killed then for him to call the perp.
The woman was great. The article was poorly written.
Thank you Ms Williams-Tillman!
If you want to read well written journalism you need to go to the UK press. It's a lost art on this side of the Atlantic.
Good for her! And the cop.
A slight disagreement, perhaps.
A kerfuffle
Cops should let inmate population know this perp was taken out by 56 old woman, will be everyones plaything
May God Bless Vickie Williams-Tillman.
Anytime a police officer discharges their weapon, regardless if anyone is shot, that officer is put on administrative leave and the incident is investigated.
Brave woman. That officer needs to thank God for her intervention, it may have been the thing to save his life
Wow! This woman is a true heroin. She’s not very young, and she appears to be rather small. I hope I would be as brave.
But she says she did what God needed her to do. God bless her.
Aack! No, I did not mean that the woman is a drug. She is a HEROINE! (Curse you, autocorrect!)
“and a Louisiana woman sent a Louisiana man to the promise lsnd. Big Vicky.”
If a policewoman cant subdue an attacker should she be doing something else. Don’t everyone can be a policeman. In general has I do not know this detail story.
That jumped out at me, too.
Squabble? Smashing a police officer over the head with his own baton is a “squabble?” Are they kidding?
God-fearing, law-abiding citizen. Rare item.
btt
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