HOWARD COUNTY POLICE CHIEF WILLIAM MCMAHON
APRIL 10TH OF ALMOST I YEAR AGO, WAS A DARK VIOLENT DAY FOR ONE HOWARD COUNTY CITIZEN WHO WAS PAYING TRIBUTE TO HIS DECEASED FATHER-
23 Year old Melvin Yates, a licensed barber and a father, was brutally beaten by Howard County Police officers. The trouble started after someone called the police to break up a fight at the Cazabe Restaurant in Jessup, Maryland, where Yates was hosting a memorial service for his deceased father.
Yates' lawsuit alleges that once he was handcuffed, the brutality started. The 23-year-old man says police officers, Ryan Thomas and Sean Kent, slammed his face into the pavement, punched him, kicked him, and choked him to the point of near unconsciousness. Adding insult to injury, it happened in front of his mother. Yates believes he was beaten, because he is African-American.
Yates' lawsuit alleges that once he was handcuffed, the brutality started. The 23-year-old man says police officers, Ryan Thomas and Sean Kent, slammed his face into the pavement, punched him, kicked him, and choked him to the point of near unconsciousness. Adding insult to injury, it happened in front of his mother. Yates believes he was beaten, because he is African-American.
AND GET THIS, OFFICER SEAN KENT, HAS BEEN CROWNED OFFICER OF THE MONTH, AT LEAST TWICE, BY POLICE CHIEF WILLIAM MCMAHON!
COP WATCH IS PROPOSING TO CHIEF MCMAHON THAT, AT THE VERY LEAST, THE OFFICER GUILTY OF, AFTER CUFFING A CITIZEN, WHO IS ON THE GROUND IN A DEFENSELESS POSITION, KICKING HIM IN THE FACE, REPEATEDLY SLAMMING HIS HEAD INTO CONCRETE, WHILE TAUNTING HIM WITH THE UGLIEST OF RACIAL EPITHETS, IS UNDESERVING OF SUCH AN HONOR AS HOWARD COUNTYS OFFICER OF THE MONTH.
CROWNING KENT, AS YOU HAVE, IS UNEQUIVOCALLY, THE WORST SIGNAL TO SEND TO OUR VERY DIVERSE COMMUNITY OF CITIZENS, AND A SOMBER SIGNAL TO SEND TO THE NEW UP AND COMING GENERATION OF POLICE OFFICERS, WHO NEED TO, NOT EMULATE THIS CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR, BUT LEARN FROM OUR MISTAKES SO AS NOT TO REPEAT THEM. CROWNING OFFICER SEAN KENT, OFFICER OF THE MONTH, IS A GRAVE MISTAKE FOR THE HOWARD COUNTY POLICE DEPARTMENT AND IT'S CITIZENS.
THE JUDGEMENT OF ANY POLICE DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL, WHO HAS THE EFFRONTERY, TO ANOINT A RENEGADE BIGOTED AND VIOLENT POLICE OFFICER, LIKE KENT, WHO TREATED ANOTHER HUMAN BEING THE WAY HE AND OFFICER RYAN THOMAS TREATED MELVIN YATES ON APRIL 10, MUST BE SUSPECT, AND ANYTHING SHORT OF STRIPPING KENT OF HIS BLOOD SOAKED TIARA, THAT YOU INAPPROPRIATELY CROWNED HIM WITH, IS UNACCEPTABLE TO OUR CULTURALLY RICH COMMUNITY, AND IN THE ABSENCE OF THIS MINIMAL SYMBOLIC ACTION ON YOUR PART, OF WITHDRAWING KENTS AWARD,
HAS US AT THE HOWARD COUNTY COP WATCH!,
RESPECTFULLY REQUESTING YOUR RESIGNATION.
HAS US AT THE HOWARD COUNTY COP WATCH!,
RESPECTFULLY REQUESTING YOUR RESIGNATION.