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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.
“For his own safety, the suspect was terminated.”
Oh no, it’s fine. It’s good that you do that.
Look, we don’t really know for sure what happened here, but there are some really outrageous incidents lately and it is very strange. They seem to be happening all over the country.
I’m very paranoid lately, don’t mind me.
And while I am here, bobby.223, ping.
Oh,,,you can’t handle the TRUTH?
The sheepdog metaphor on your home page. Sheep dogs and sheep. You are forgetting another category. The rattle snake. Leave him alone and you will never have trouble with him. But let some dopey self important sheep dog come around and it means fangs and poison for the self anointed busy body sheep dog. In spite of all the sheep dogs efforts to convince the sheep that his endless yapping and bustling about are essential.
Sheep dogs are the most annoying pesky self important little shiites.
LOL, you are really out there, in you own little fantasy world, just raging away.
What does JTB stand for?
You have a ridiculous hero complex. Sheep dogs and sheep. That’s really disturbing and deluded. Talk about living in fantasy? Dear audience, i invite those of you with a strong stomach to view this guys home page. Patronizing? Check. Infantile? Check. Hero complex? Check. Everything wrong with cop culture everywhere? Check.
You clowns really hold your employers in contempt. Tilting at windmills and getting paid for it. Fantastic!
What are you rambling about, do you even know?
Jack Booted Thug.
OK. As long as you’re not wrapping all cops into that description. I know a lot of good cops. I know some bad ones too. They don’t last long here. We have a by-the-book chief who tolerates no badge heavy a$$holes on his force.
It’s. “JBT” = Jack Booted Thug.
Your acronym is for a Japanese Travel Agency ....
/s
Who are my employers that I hold in contempt?
Seems a lot of veterans are getting whacked by the police lately. Has anyone done any research to find out whether their MOS was the same or similar?
Oh boy... thanks for the ping, bamahead.
Steroids used to increase muscle development, also used by some athletes. A side effect is known as “ ‘roid rage”, uncontrollable violent behaviour.
Good Lord no! Just in the past week I’ve called a dog shooting as fully justified (he really was being attacked by them and even took a bite before he shot them), noted that the context in a beat down of a man thrown from a van in a chase made the brief beating he got understandable (he clipped the cop putting out the tack strip), declined an opportunity to ping a thread were a cop destroyed his foreclosed home before turning it over to the bank (he wasn’t operating under color of authority), mentioned that when the SJPD came to my house to search for a meth lab they were perfect gentlemen (Seriously!), noted it as a hopeful sign that when two Killeen cops were shot (one fatally) in a wee hours no-knock raid that the home owners were not summarily executed.
Most cops are good and decent people, the full glare of sunlight, which is a powerful disinfectant, needs to be shown on the bad ones.
>> the 11 or 13 seconds of the King video that the media has kept from the public, which shows king attacking the cops.
The media is the Country’s greatest threat.
At the time, I was branded a racist for suggesting we knew little about what preceded the baton-athon.
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