Officer Jared Williams attacks Monique Tillman in mall parking lot.
Tillman and her brother had done nothing wrong, and were merely targetted by this 'public servant' because they had the unfortunate luck to have crossed paths with him.
As the duo travelled home, they cut through a mall parking lot, as they had done countless times before. However, this time, Officer Williams was in that parking lot, in his full Tacoma Police department uniform, yet off-duty, working as mall security. As the teens travelled through the lot, Williams began pursuit of these hardened criminals and accused them of trespassing.
Knowing they'd done nothing wrong, Monique attempted to explain to the officer that they cut through the parking lot all the time on their way home. However, this tyrant was having nothing of it.
As the duo attempted to ride away from a man whose intentions were clearly unscrupulous, Williams attacked. A recently released surveillance video shows the disturbing scene that unfolded next.
This heroic officer ripped the girl from her bike and slammed her up against a parked car with his hand around her neck. As the child struggled to breathe, this abusive tyrant grabbed her by the hair and flung her around like a rag doll.
Clearly overpowering the small child, half his size, the officer wasn't satisfied with the damage he'd inflicted so far. So, for good measure, Williams pulled out his taser and sent 50,000 volts into this poor girl.
"He was choking me, grabbed me by my hair and tried to slam my face into the concrete. The next thing I know, I'm on the ground being tased," Tillman said.
Now face down, tasered, handcuffed and brutalized, Williams stood over his victim like a hunter and his kill. He had protected society from the likes of a dangerous brother and sister riding their bicycles.
Williams then arrested Monique and charged her with resisting arrest and, get this, assault on an officer.
After viewing the surveillance video of the incident, however, all of the charges were thrown out.
Vito de la Cruz, Tillman's attorney, has filed a lawsuit seeking damages from Officer Williams, the Simon Property Group who owns the Tacoma Mall and Universal Protection Services, the private security company in charge of Tacoma Mall security.
"A child riding a bike should not have to worry that a police officer will stop her without legal cause and brutalize her," said de la Cruz. "Our communities are weary of another African American child being hurt by unwarranted and excessive police force."
The Free Thought Project reached out the Tacoma PD to inquire about Williams' current status and if any disciplinary action had been taken. However, our requests for comment were not returned.
Below is what policing in modern day America has become.
Reader Comments
Good thing it wasn't her parents treating her like this. They could have lost custody.
Well, they probably have been plagued with car prowlings, but personally I'd be looking for someone not on a pink bike.
We have reached some kind of tipping point. These aren't cops, they are thugs wearing uniforms, and what's so different about it these days is they don't fire people like this. It isn't like the police haven't always had cases like this, it's that in the past they handled them by termination of employment.
Beating on a 15y/o girl. You bald tub of shit. I guess you're just not man enough to take on someone your own size.
Asshole!
Maybe the Police should install stricter drug tests like the NFL does, to weed out the potential problem cases. To many give passes to police as model citizens and all to often they prove to be just as human as anyone else, except they carry a gun and have unlimited arresting capabilities.
Or possibly he is just one of many P.O.S in society that abuse their status because they can.
One has to wonder (at least I do) as to where this behavior got it's start. Was the officer in question a school bully? Was this learned behavior brought about by racial hatred simmered in a group of like-minded individuals? What kind of people did the officer hang out with early and later in life?
A person doesn't normally go off and start brutalizing a child one day. It speaks of a behavior that was groomed for a long time, simmered in hate and loathing, and finally materialized in a brutal attack against someone who couldn't defend themselves. Charging the victim with assaulting an officer of the law is a statement to others as to the bully's perception that he/she is not subject to the laws of the land, and in their mind, above them.
When you get right down to it, being a Peace Officer is not about physical control but more about keeping the peace in civil society. It takes a special kind of person to do that without getting personally involved or carried away by emotions.
Must be a very rich mall to afford so many of these security types... a couple million must be nothing to them...
One idea is to start a public protest so the whole community can see these mall cops in action, and what that those shopping there are paying for.
One small thing that I thought about reading this horrible thing happening to a youngster by a police officer...
He is on his free time AWAY from WORK as a Police Officer.... Is he really allowed to use his uniform on another job???
This is one thing that should give him the boot from the force, because if you use your other work attire, that place could come under suspicion if you do something illegal at your OTHER workplace!!!...
Will be fun to see how the police will spin this one....
Looking at the video, one has to wonder, what the hell is he thinking (if ever he does)...
Beating on a 15 y/o girl is not the right thing to do when you work as an officer of the law (peace)...
Hope this worthless piece of gets whatever comes his way in form of punishment!!!