some of the 'thin blue line's' actions are beyond absurd and criminal, and here's one;
Radcliff, KY — On the night he was run over by a police cruiser, Anthony Gray had harmed no one and was merely leaving a hotel parking lot after a verbal dispute with a worker. At worst, Gray could have gotten a ticket for trespassing and instead, police tried to kill him in an extremely gruesome manner. The taxpayers of Radcliff will now be held accountable for the officers’ actions that night.
According to police, they received a call from the Gold Vault Inn last September telling them that a man was trespassing at the hotel. When police arrived, Gray was already off the property and on his way. It should have been over at this point but officers chose to needlessly escalate the situation to the point of deadly force.
As the video shows, Gray was leaving the area by the time police arrived and the first officer on the scene was questioning him. Gray explained to the officer that a member of the staff was rude to him, so he left. That officer should have let Gray go as there had been no crime but he did not.
Instead, the officer — without warning or even telling Gray what was happening — began to physically restrain Gray for arrest.
“Then suddenly, no reason, no justification, no warning,” Officer Robert Stephens tried to grab Gray by the arm, Attorney Aaron Bentley, who represents Gray, said in an interview with WDRB. “Anthony was scared and ran away.”
Having harmed no one, Gray told the officer, “No, I’m not going to jail.”
“Yes you are,” the officer responds, as Gray runs away.
As Gray ran, he yelled at the officer that he was unarmed and just wanted to leave. But when officer Justin Skaggs arrived, he made sure that would be impossible. As footage shows, Skaggs’ aims his police cruiser directly at Gray before running the man over.
“By every indication, he intentionally runs the car into Anthony, runs over his leg and foot, causing pretty severe injuries,” Bentley said..........read and watch more......
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