12 Year Old Dymond Milburn was severely beaten by 3 plainclothes police officers because they thought she was a prostitute. Even though they beat her with a flashlight and caused injuries to her head, spine, throat and ear, the cops charged her with assault.
Sean Stewart, one of the cops involved, later received “Officer of the Year”
Credit: Cop Block
WHAT THE FUUCK
it’s said that this isn’t even surprising… there’s just a feeling of general hopelessness tbh
NO it’s so important you read the article though, because it’s even worse.
According to a lawsuit filed in federal court in Galveston, Dymond Larae Milburn went outside her home to flip a circuit breaker at about 7:45 p.m. on Aug. 22, 2006.
Responding to a call that three white prostitutes were soliciting in the neighborhood, the plainclothes officers jumped out of an unmarked van on Gomez’s orders and one of them grabbed the girl, who is black, the lawsuit states.
The girl contends that the officers did not identify themselves as police and that the officer who grabbed her, later identified as Roark, told her, “You’re a prostitute. You’re coming with me.”
Her parents heard her cries for help and came outside to see the hysterical girl hanging on to a tree and screaming “Daddy! Daddy! Daddy!” while two officers hit her about the head, face and throat, the family alleges.
Plainclothes officers. Three adult male strangers jumped out of a van, called a little girl a prostitute, and attempted to drag her away into the van. And then later they charge her with resisting arrest.
And from this article (I don’t understand why they have that image as a header depicting a scary black man threatening/silencing a crying little white girl when it was a white COP beating on a little black girl but ok)
Officer David Roark had his hand over the mouth of Milburn when her father came out on the balcony after hearing his daughter’s cries for help. The other officers, Justin Popovich and Sean Stewart, beat Dymond’s face, head and throat while their supervisor, Sgt. Gilbert Gomez, watched on in approval.
Dymond’s parents approached the cops and said “That’s our daughter. She’s twelve.” Roark responded “I don’t care if she’s twenty-two, thirty-two, or forty-six.”
and then:
The examining physician found that the girl had injuries from multiple blows to the head, face, neck, lower back, left shoulder, and left hip/waist area. She suffered a contusion to the back of the head (where she was struck with a flashlight). There were abrasions on her arm and wrist. Dymond’s throat was swollen; she had difficulty swallowing, nausea and vomiting, and hoarseness of voice due to being struck in the throat. She had black eyes, scalp lacerations, tenderness of the vertebrae. She was experiencing double vision and loss of hearing. Dymond’s ear drum and nose were also injured (blood in ear, bruised nasal septum, and nose bleed).
After the attack, Dymond suffered from PTSD, nightmares, and an inability to concentrate in school.
When she finally healed enough (physically) to return to school a horrible surprise was waiting for her. Police showed up to Austin Middle School and arrested Dymond for resisting and assaulting a peace officer. A twelve year old girl!
In a blatant disregard of logic and common sense, the court system in Galveston felt these charges were justified and Milburn was actually charged with assault on an officer and tried, twice! After three years and two mistrials, the DA finally dropped her case.
Immediately after her criminal trials, the family filed a civil suit, naming the four officers as plaintiffs. After multiple appeals by officers, including asking the court to dismiss the case based upon qualified immunity, meaning that the officers were just doing their job and are thereby shielded from civil liability, a settlement has yet to have been reached.
Absolutely disgusting.
Someone please tell me this isn’t real…
Kill these fools
(via eldiosss-blog)
It’s crazy because I wrote this shit last night. While you all were sound sleep in your bed. I couldn’t sleep. All I could think about is how America literally just set us up.
Think about it. You get news coverage like @Fox5 , @NBCnews , and etc and have them play a story in your head over and over again. They don’t show the endless amount of young African Americans dying everyday by police do they? No you know what they show? They show the young minded ignorant highschool teenagers who are mad at the world. And have every given right to be. Not only were they let out of school early yesterday but police were there in riot gear to greet them. A person can only take so much. Do you not understand ? They are tired of a country saying they are free when they really aren’t ? They get pulled over for being “suspicious” frisked for the fuck of it. Beaten down, shot, and still they stand tall. There are still African Americans out there going to work right after dealing with bullshit like this. But everyone has a boiling point. And Baltimore just reached its ! I see all these people saying looting is wrong , but yet they don’t see that they are living on stolen land, built on stolen labor , powered by stolen resources by poor countries! For those of you who said violence wasn’t the answer ? Cool. We shouldn’t have gone to war after 9/11 since we are preaching peace now.
Everyone has a opinion on somthing that they don’t know shit about.
And it’s crazy because if you noticed the media said “ Gangs will unite as one to fight the police” When what photographs show are gang members marching with the church, not looting. It sickens me how ignorant some people really are. A wise man once told me “ as long as there is poverty and austerity there will be unrest, how can we blame any portion of society for rising up when our own rulers exploit everyone, but the white collar crimes. Once the poor have ran out of hope they will have nothing to feed off but the rich ”. I feel for the parents of the young teenagers out there. I feel for the black business owners who’s business’s burned to the ground! Don’t blame the kids, they acted there age ! Blame the adults we pay to protect us