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| Another Isolated Incident |
| 2008-12-23 |
| It was a little before 8 at night when the breaker went out at Emily Milburn's home in Galveston. She was busy preparing her children for school the next day, so she asked her 12-year-old daughter, Dymond, to pop outside and turn the switch back on. As Dymond headed toward the breaker, a blue van drove up and three men jumped out rushing toward her. One of them grabbed her saying, "You're a prostitute. You're coming with me." Dymond grabbed onto a tree and started screaming, "Daddy, Daddy, Daddy." One of the men covered her mouth. Two of the men beat her about the face and throat. As it turned out, the three men were plain-clothed Galveston police officers who had been called to the area regarding three white prostitutes soliciting a white man and a black drug dealer. All this is according to a lawsuit filed in Galveston federal court by Milburn against the officers. The lawsuit alleges that the officers thought Dymond, an African-American, was a hooker due to the "tight shorts" she was wearing, despite not fitting the racial description of any of the female suspects. The police went to the wrong house, two blocks away from the area of the reported illegal activity, Milburn's attorney, Anthony Griffin, tells Hair Balls. After the incident, Dymond was hospitalized and suffered black eyes as well as throat and ear drum injuries. Three weeks later, according to the lawsuit, police went to Dymond's school, where she was an honor student, and arrested her for assaulting a public servant. Griffin says the allegations stem from when Dymond fought back against the three men who were trying to take her from her home. The case went to trial, but the judge declared it a mistrial on the first day, says Griffin. The new trial is set for February. "I think we'll be okay," says Griffin. "I don't think a jury will find a 12-year-old girl guilty who's just sitting outside her house. Any 12-year-old attacked by three men and told that she's a prostitute is going to scream and yell for Daddy and hit back and do whatever she can. She's scared to death." Since the incident more than two years ago, Dymond regularly suffers nightmares in which police officers are raping and beating her and cutting off her fingers, according to the lawsuit. Griffin says he expects to enter mediation with the officers in early 2009 to resolve the lawsuit. Update: This is from the officers' lawyer, William Helfand: Both the daughter and the father were arrested for assaulting a peace officer. "The father basically attacked police officers as they were trying to take the daughter into custody after she ran off." Also, "The city has investigated the matter and found that the conduct of the police officers was appropriate under the circumstances," Helfand says. "It's unfortunate that sometimes police officers have to use force against people who are using force against them. And the evidence will show that both these folks violated the law and forcefully resisted arrest." |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #14 I hope you mean Rogue? Why, yes! That is what I meant. |
| Posted by: Craique Johnson8213 (out and about). 2008-12-23 23:45 |
| #13 I hope you mean Rogue? |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2008-12-23 15:07 |
| #12 I see a time in the not too distant future, when Rouge Cops and the bureaucrats that cover for them are going to be hunted. For the last 35 years I have watched this country's society just rot away as a result of liberalism. The rot is accelerating. |
| Posted by: Craique Johnson8213 2008-12-23 13:19 |
| #11 Since when are police allowed to beat prostitutes around the head and throat, much less 12-year-olds? |
| Posted by: Fred= 12/23/2008 12:57 |
| #10 A high school classmate of mine used to work for the City of Galveston as a probation officer. This is not an isolated case. Even Houston has a better reputation than Galveston. Cops being off by two blocks doesn't surprise me. Galveston streets were laid out and named by blind wharf rats after they consumed a few bottles of rotgut. My friend used to live on "Half-M Street". That was a street halfway between "M" and "N" streets. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2008-12-23 12:51 |
| #9 tipover, rabid is so right. u r a frickin' idiot. The cops should be in the slammer. Want to know why so many people hate cops and totally distrust them? Just read the news. This sort of thing happens all the time and excused. |
| Posted by: Beldar Angeanter8182 2008-12-23 12:18 |
| #8 If this was a fair world, the "police" officers would have all been shot dead by the father defending his daughter from what appeared to be attackers. Absolutely fucking disgusting behavior by the police. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2008-12-23 11:58 |
| #7 I wasn't aware Hookers had a uniform. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2008-12-23 11:57 |
| #6 This is Texas??? The officers are lucky to be alive, kidnapping a 12 year-old from her front porch. Sounds like this city's had it. Time for 'daddy' to take the kids & move, hopefully after collecting nicely against the city (and hopefully finding the officers fired, if the facts merit that). |
| Posted by: logi_cal 2008-12-23 11:25 |
| #5 Another case of blind justice? |
| Posted by: 3dc 2008-12-23 10:43 |
| #4 by looking at your comments again i think you should maybe read a little closer but opening that black hole you call a mouth |
| Posted by: rabid whitetail 2008-12-23 10:21 |
| #3 dressing like a hooker is not smart for any reasons. thats the stupidest statement i have ever read here at rantburg.. She was 12 at her own home and three men in PLAIN CLOTHES jump out of a van and grab her. Thats like saying a rape victim deserved it.They lucky i wasn't daddy or at least one of them would have died that morning along with me if that where the case. Damn , I thought the human rights article pissed me off but TIPOVER i believe you are by far the stupidest fucking person too ever enter the halls of rantburg and thats saying alot |
| Posted by: rabid whitetail 2008-12-23 10:20 |
| #2 "The city has investigated the matter and found that the conduct of the police officers was appropriate under the circumstances," WTF? |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-12-23 10:07 |
| #1 Were the officers in uniform? Did they identify themselves and dress so as to be easily identified? Was the vehicle marked? If not they were kidnappers and should have been shot. PS: Dressing like a hooker is not smart for so many reasons. |
| Posted by: tipover 2008-12-23 10:06 |