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Tacoma cop assualts & tasers teen for riding bike through parking lot

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Tillman was 15 years old on May 24, 2014, when she and her brother dropped off some clothes at a consignment shop, had a meal at McDonald’s and then headed home at about 5 p.m., cutting through the Tacoma Mall parking lot near their house, her attorney said.

While she was riding, officer Jared Williams pulled his Tacoma Police Department-issued patrol vehicle behind the wheel of her bike, according to the lawsuit filed last week.

She turned around and asked him what was going on and why was “he trying to hit me with his car,” she said in a telephone interview on Wednesday.
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In a video taken by a mall surveillance camera, Tillman is seen talking to Williams and another security employee, gesticulating with her arms and pointing.

Williams, who was working off-duty for mall security at the time, told Tillman that she was causing a disturbance and was going to be “trespassed,” or banned, from the mall and could be arrested if she were to return, according to the suit.

As the officer appears to take a notebook from his chest pocket, Tillman can be seen in the video trying to pedal away.
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In the video, it also appears that Williams was holding Tillman against a vehicle by her throat for a time.

Once she was immobilized, the suit claims, Williams tased Tillman and arrested her.

She was charged in juvenile court with resisting arrest and assaulting an officer. Williams claimed she had tried to kick him, de la Cruz said.

He said the charges against Tillman were dismissed by a judge who viewed the video and found no evidence that the officer was investigating a crime when Tillman was stopped and no evidence that she assaulted Williams.

Tillman’s brother, who is one year older, was also arrested and cited for bicycling without a helmet, said de la Cruz.
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Officers continue to violently take out their petty anger out on black teens. Luckily, the officer sticking to a "she started it" excuse wasn't enough for the judge in this case. Dude was ready to ruin their lives because of a damn bike.
 
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entremet

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This stuff is depressing.

Another black teen treated like garbage.

Stopping teens for riding without helmets is dumb.
 
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"playing" dumb? unpossible
EdibleKnife said:
Officers continue to violently take out their petty anger out on black teens. Luckily, the officer sticking to a "she started it" excuse wasn't enough for the judge in this case. Dude was ready to ruin their lives because of a damn bike.
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Well two cops executed a man in California for riding his bike with earphones on, so she's lucky all he did was arrest her.
 
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