Posted on 07/08/2011 4:45:36 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour
Dashboard cameras are supposed to help protect police officers and sheriff's deputies from groundless complaints, but a graphic dash cam video obtained by FOX17 NEWS has some Humphreys County lawmen at the center of a TBI investigation. It was January 23 on the outskirts of Waverly when sheriff's deputies roll up to a house on Bearcat Lane. It started otu peacefully enough, with authorities questioning 35 year old Darrin Ring on the left and 2 other men who say they live next door to the home, but the peace was quickly shattered. 3 Humphreys County sheriff's deputies converge on Ring and take him down. You can hear them telling Ring to settle down before deputies repeatedly hit and kicked him.
"In the course of about 14 minutes they removed his clothing so he was laying naked in the snow," says District Public Defender Jake Lockert. "Cuffed his hands in front of him, pepper sprayed him, tazed him multiple times, beat him with steel asps and kicked him into the ribs until the point they punctured a lung."
The sheriff's deputies were eventually joined by 2 Waverly police officers who were backing them up. The Waverly officers have tazer guns. Lockert, a former state prosecutor, says it's the worst case of excessive force he's ever seen.
"Our client was in a no win situation," says Lockert. "If he obeys the officers' commands and tries to comply, he's kicked and beaten and tazed. If he doesn't move, he's hit and beaten and tazed."
Lockert says Darrin Ring was drunk but committed no crime. He says his client was charged with Assaulting an Officer and Resisting Arrest to cover up what he contends is the real crime. Jake Lockert will be in court July 20 asking for all charges against Darrin Ring to be dropped, and Ring is considering a civil lawsuit. The sheriff's department didn't comment Thursday. The officers involved remain on the job pending the TBI's investigation.
You better be careful or you're going to end up live on CNN. What a thread that would be!
“Some times these N.E. badboys found themselves on the way to see a judge, just to remind them what state they were in at the time, and that they had no authority what so ever outside their respective districts.”
Good on you.
Tennessee isn't perfect, but I think it is still one of the best places in the country to live.
But it is still a (mostly) free country, move to New York City or DC, if you prefer.
What will happen is that American law enforcement will be seen by the public as a danger rather than a help. The public will stop trusting and cooperating and respecting them. It is American good will and our civil society that was born of the constitution that is the difference between us and a banana republic. The law won’t mean anything to anyone because it does mean nothing if the cops and courts are corrupt.
As the unions have managed to protect thug cops from prosecution for their crimes, bad cops are going to get more and more brazen and corrupt. When that happens, you eventually get mexico. Obama has armed the cartels and opened the borders to trucking and walkins to help.
Just kidding.
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Witness: Man beaten, Tasered in jail
http://www.wsmv.com/story/15070713/witness-man-beat-tasered-in-jail
WAVERLY, Tenn. -
The beating apparently didn’t stop when the man seen on video being beaten by Humphreys County deputies arrived at the jail, according to witnesses.
This is among the incidents the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and Federal Bureau of Investigation are now looking into in connection with the January beating of Darrin Ring.
The FBI and TBI served federal grand jury subpoenas to the sheriff’s department. Those subpoenas could include jailers, deputies and Sheriff Chris Davis, as well as all records, files and computers.
Larry Barbee is one of two inmates who has told the TBI that Ring was beaten and Tasered in jail while shackled.
“We’re in a four-man cell and right across the hall is a single cell. We have a window that we can see outside in the hallway,” said Barbee in an exclusive interview with Channel 4 News. “We heard a big commotion going on. They bring Darrin in and it was like four or five deputies, the sheriff was one of them, and they’ve got Darrin wrapped in a blanket, dragging him down the hall.”
Ring was still not dressed after deputies stripped off his clothes in the initial attack at his home.
“The sheriff was over here and had his hands on the cement bench and was going down with his knee over and over,” said Barbee, demonstrating the sheriff’s actions. “Deputy Tim Hedge was standing on top of Darrin’s head.”
Barbee said a young female jailer entered the area and told a Waverly police officer, Kinta Bell, that she had never seen anyone Tased. That officer then Tasered Ring.
“Officer [Joe] Parnell goes in there and grabs him by the head, tells him to stand up at first,” said Barbee. “He can’t stand up because his hands are handcuffed to his feet. He can’t stand up.”
“[Parnell] keeps telling him to [stand up] and he said he can’t. So he grabbed his head and rammed it into the wall, and then Officer Bell comes in from behind and Tases him.”
Barbee is in jail on charges of making meth with the intent of resale. He is one of two inmates who made statements to the TBI and were then moved to the Dickson County Jail.
Waverly Police Chief David Daniel said his department is not making any comment until the investigation is complete.
“We are cooperating completely,” said Daniel. “Rumors are rampant and we need a resolution for the entire incident.”
"Anymore"? When did you trust them? When you were 5 years old? I can't understand the veneration, almost reverence, some people have for the police! Sean Hannity, for instance. In general they are arrogant and not the brightest.
It’s things like this that have me not so trusting of the police anymore.
"Anymore"? When did you trust them? When you were 5 years old? I can't understand the veneration, almost reverence, some people have for the police! Sean Hannity, for instance. In general they are arrogant and not the brightest.
Brings back memories...I was robbed by cops in Virginia Beach, VA (Marines MPs riding with local cops) and also in Chattanooga, TN (Chattanooga city police) and by the Marine MPs in Portsmouth, NH(gate guards). All three times they stole articles from my vehicle...the first two stole valuables, instead of citing me for traffic violations and the gate guards stole cash and beer. After I repoted them, I was targeted for search every time I entered/left the base. They would tear apart my vehicle and I would be left with re-assembling it. This went on for two months until my sub left drydock.
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