Galveston Police accused of assaulting a 12 year old girl
Galveston Police Department
This whole article according to Houston Blog
Police Get The Wrong House In Galveston, Allegedly Assault 12-Year-Old Girl
Wed Dec 17, 2008 at 12:37:01 PM
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.
We’ve got calls in to the officers’ lawyer; we’ll let you know if we hear something.
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.”
What would you do if you were this girls father? Vote here -
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Abraham Lincoln Statue & Bust
Abe Lincoln Bust
There are many pieces of Abraham Lincoln statues and busts all over the internet. Some bronze busts can reach prices as high as $49,000 and up! Cheap renditions and models can be anywhere from $500 on down.
This heroic plaster bust of Abraham Lincoln was created by Max Bachman. (1862-1921) It is approximately 28 inches high and 24 inches wide. One casting of this unique sculpture was showcased for the Republican Club of New York City for the centennial celebration of Lincoln in 1909.
This famous bust of Abraham Lincoln has been in our family for over 29 years. Imagine this as a bronze cast. Some would view it as “priceless” - How much would YOU be willing to pay for it?
Abraham Lincoln Statue Fine Art
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California bankruptcy problems continue -
California Bankrupt
California - golden California - where have you gone?
California is a bad omen for the whole country of the United States. Reports through out the internet have California being completely bankrupt by February 2009. Look at the situation in Vallejo, California.
This is devastating…
When the town of Vallejo, California, declared bankruptcy this spring, Mayor Osby Davis predicted — and rightly so — that he’d get an earful from his constituents, employees and retirees. What he didn’t anticipate was the chorus of phone calls from mayors outside the city, both close by and clear across the country. They told him they were watching Vallejo’s bankruptcy proceedings closely, and some of them, he says, indicated that “they find themselves not too far behind us.”
So, here’s the question - who is the “they?”
Is it Los Angeles? San Francisco? San Jose? Sacramento?
Is it possible that Vallejo is just a “drop in the bucket” compared to the travesty that awaits?
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger really has to end this crisis - but what can he do? Write a letter to Hank Paulson and the FED and keep your fingers crossed?
California is symbolic of the whole country right now - A parasitic government overwhelming the taxpaying host.
According to LaRouche political action committee -
With his December 1 declaration of a “fiscal emergency,” California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has ordered the state legislature into a special emergency session for the second time in two months. Warning that the state will run out of cash by February 2009, he stated, “Without immediate action, our state is headed for a fiscal disaster.” He compared the deteriorating situation in the state to “finding an accident victim on the side of the road that is bleeding to death,” while describing the increasing budget deficit as being “like an avalanche, that it gains momentum.”
With the state debt over $60 billion, the worst credit rating of the fifty states, unemployment officially at 8.2% and climbing, and a budget deficit, which is now close to $30 billion for the next nineteen months, and growing, as the revenue base continues to implode, Arnie’s doomsday language is appropriate — even though Shwarzenegger still sounds like a cartoon character when he delivers it!
So California - what’s it going to be? More Vallejo’s? More bankruptcies? More begging for Washington bailouts?
America’s problem is that government believes it can borrow its way into prosperity. Well guess what? The bills are coming due.
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