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.
The copsuckers do not show up to much these days. Even they have a hard time defending some of their ‘roided up JBT’s actions anymore. Like you say tho, stay tuned.....they will show their blind idiotic support and badge polishing skills soon. They can’t help it!
They just can’t help themselves, can they bobby? they are certain threads that draw them out like a moth to ight.
Funny thing though, if you ping ‘em to the threads they get rilly, rilly pissed! Go figure!
Knew a few cops who used them. Would turn nasty at the flip of a switch.
And whats with cops who have shaved heads. Are they all going bald or want to look like the military?
Which is what they want.
Wolves devour sheep.
If only that would happen more often.
Agreed!!!
I guess my question to the 4th and 5th officers that joined in on this melee would be:
Why did you feel it was necessary to attack the civilian, when there were three officers who were already whaling on the guy?
Unless this vet was 6’10” and 450 pounds, if three officers could not subdue the person and secure him with handcuffs, then there might be a failure in the training program on how to affect an arrest.
What was he resisting? Were they going to arrest him for not having a front license plate?
I hate cops. My wife said the other day “It’s scary that whenever we see a cop we become fearful of what might happen.” I hate cops.
As I’ve said before, the local and state cops are part of that “250,000 strong civilian force that’s just as powerful as the army” that obama promised.
“I hate cops.”
As I’ve said here before I was warned about cops by my Irish grandmother years ago.
And as I have often said (but maybe not here) one of the biggest myths in American society is that cops treat white people well, or better than they treat non-white people.
Aside from all that, there is something very bad going on today.
From the IRS scandal to these many police abuses, these problems have their essences in unionized public employees.
An end needs to be put to that whole system
Sections 2 and 3a are contradictory.
All power cannot be inherent in the people if the state decides what mom and pop businesses can and cannot do.
Can you point to a link showing 29% support, one preferably not put out by the secretive Pastor Patriot, who will not permit you to provide all the information he has.
Kind of makes the Maine secession movement like Obamacare. Y’all gotta vote for it to find out what’s in it.
Those who have been invited to serve on the first Supreme Court have found no such conflict.
OK. But it begs the question - what are you afraid of? Why not be up front and honest?
But I do note with some sadness that you are unwilling to address an obvious contradiction in the proposed constitution.
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