Those of you who are paying attention may recall this case from 2020 where a Black Virginia man was brutally tased by a monster in a police uniform while he was experiencing a mental event.
It is kinda redundant that I wrote, ‘black Virginia man’, who else would those monsters abuse in such a way?
Just to recap, the victim La Monta Gladney, a 38-year-old Black man of the Mount Vernon area of Fairfax county was pacing in a circle and trying without success, to communicate with emergency personnel on the scene that he needed help.
Other reports note he was rambling incoherently and later was found to have had phencyclidine, a street drug known as PCP or angel dust, in his system.
Another cop arrived on the scene, this time an eight-year veteran Rambo Tyler Ryan Timberlake, he immediately pulled his taser and shot Gladney then kneeled on his back and neck. As Gladney falls to the ground, the officer places his knee on the man’s back and neck. Timberlake, without lifting his knee, smacks him in the face and shoots him with the stun gun another time. Gladney cries out, “No!” He also yells, “I can’t breathe.”
Mister Gladney was arrested on [trumped] up charges of public drunkenness and resisting arrest, the charges were later dropped.
Well, now the county has decided to settle the federal lawsuit filed by mister Gladney for an undisclosed sum according to Atlanta Blackstar. La Monta Gladney asserted that Timberlake violated his civil rights by tasing him without provocation, kneeling on his back and neck, and then arresting him without cause.
In a statement, Jeff McKay, Chairman of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, said the settlement does not include an admission of liability or guilt.
So I guess Fairfax county in Virginia is just in the business of cutting checks willy-nilly to people to whom its employees have done nothing wrong!!!
The sad irony here is that this monster thug Tyler Ryan Timberlake who was charged with assaulting mister Gladney was found [not] guilty by a white jury earlier this year. He lied in his testimony to the jury that he mistook mister Gladney for another man who was wanted on a warrant. He contradicted that statement in the same testimony that he felt he had grounds to arrest Gladney for being intoxicated in public. Ultimately, he said he wasn’t trying to hurt Gladney, but get him help. I guess the way to help a person suffering is to tase them repeatedly and hit them in the head while they are in distress.
This was the same lying cop who testefied that he thought the victim was a different person
“It was first and foremost we needed to get him medical treatment, it’s common to have to take into custody individuals on PCP in order to get them medical care.” [Yea just attempt to kill them to save them].
Timberlake told jurors his Taser was the best way to do that because people on PCP can be unusually strong and often don’t respond to pain the same way a sober person does, so other tools like a baton or pepper spray are ineffective.
During the trial droves of Timberlake’s thug colleagues attended court because they were upset that he was charged criminally.
But they needent have worried the white jury had no intention of finding him gulty for his crimes, but the county is using taxpayers money to compensate mister Gladney.
The irony, in the meantime the monster is alllowed to continue wearing a police uniform, and will continue to cause harm to the public.
It is important to reconcile that the first officer on the scene did see the need for force and did not use any force on mister Gladney. The police chief after viewing the video of the encounter said what he saw was outrageous.
.
.
.
Mike Beckles is a former Police Detective, businessman, a freelance writer, black achiever honoree, and creator of the blog mikebeckles.com.