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
Her father was arrested for fighting to stop three, plainclothes guys who grabbed his daughter and force her into a van. He should have intuitively known they were cops and not kidnappers. Right?
“The city has investigated the matter and found that the conduct of the police officers was appropriate under the circumstances,”
Gee, yet another story about what a bunch of dumbasses some of Texas’ cops can be. And naturally they chose to troll a poor neighborhood, instead of where the hookers would likely be. As if the cops didn’t know. I suspect a bit of a protection rack there. Protecting the “johns”, the hookers, or both. But still fulfilling their quota of pickups.
It this had been some other state, community. There would be race riot on their hands. But I guess Galveston knows what they can get away with.
ROAR! You can literally SMELL the testosterone flowing. ROAR!!!!! Stick ’em up, mo fo, or I’ll pop a cap in yo ass!
There are plenty of good cops out there, that actually know the law, and enforce it correctly. The sad thing is that they never get in the news. It’s always the morons that make the news. So we never hear about the good things. With that said, it’s hard to say how I’d react to this situation, I’m not so sure I’d be pulling out a gun and shooting, but I think I would have to make it known that I have a gun and will shoot if I don’t get an answer of what’s going on.
Anyone that knows anything about guns, never pull the gun out unless you plan on shooting someone. I am pro guns, but, it’s just that people have to respect them.
The media needs to publish the names of these potential child rapist so everyone living in the Galveston area can keep their children away from them and save.
Secondly, the Milburn family at a minimum should file federal civil rights charges against the child abusers. I would also press their lawyer to file federal charges for attempted kidnap and child abuse as well as filing a false police report.
Remember Police only have immunity from prosecution when doing their job legally. They have no immunity when they break the law.
Had a man reach out and grab my 2 yr (at that time)old daughter in a supermarket one time, she was in the cart I turned to get an item, turned back and saw him.
He landed 10 feet away. There was no time for “guns” or any other such horseshit.
Instant rage plus adrenaline.
There’s a reason you hear stories of parents doing amazing things in defense of their children.
1. the cops should of Identified themselve to the KID..
2. ascertain WHO the kid was…
3. CHECKED with those INSIDE THE HOUSE.
This all could have been solved in 5 minutes, and NOTHING would of happened.
COVERING the kids MOUTH?? while she was calling for HELP??
“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.”
You have to love the fact that it’s a crime in Texas (it is in Massachusetts too, though not New York,) to resist an unlawful arrest. So the almighty boys in blue can come to your house, bust down the doors, beat the everloving shit out of you, and if you so much as spit at them you would have committed a crime, and Internal Affairs would have “found that the conduct of the police officers was appropriate under the circumstances[.]”
There might be good cops out there. But there are a whole heck of a lot of bad ones.
#31, booboo,
Fusion==the article and my question had nothing to do with 3 strangers “holding” your daughter.
No, you are being your typical asshole self. Your question is hypothetical and thus would require another hypothetical answer. So let me stray from your your hypothetical area and tell you to put you thumb up your arse and rotate on it for awhile.
effen idiot !!!
EMILY MILBURN, INDIVIDUALLY
AND AS NEXT FRIEND OF DYMOND LARAE MILBURN,
PLAINTIFF
V.
SERGEANT GILBERT GOMEZ [BADGE #987],
OFFICERS DAVID ROARK [BADGE #332],
JUSTIN POPOVICH [BADGE #336), AND
SEAN STEWART [BADGE #392],
DEFENDANTS (.pdf)
I hope the victims of this lawless law- enforcement do wind up with an all-expenses -paid college education and a nice vacation home, as well, courtesy of the good taxpayers of Galveston who tolerate this sort of thing by their cops.
but seriously – shoot it out with the police while they are holding your daughter? are you insane? cops are actually trained shooters, much moreso than your average gun owner. you would likely wind up dead, along with your daughter.
or, if you do get lucky and don’t get your own stupid ass killed, you would likely wind up in the pen as a cop-killer. and your story about defending your daughter? hey, who’s gonna believe you? when the whole thing winds up in front of a jury, it will be that the cops had their badges out and were just defending themselves from your daughter’s unprovoked attack, when you stepped outside guns blazing.
#40 – CharlesTW
“At the time, Dymond was five (5) feet and six (6) inches tall, and weighed one hundred and twenty (120) pounds. She was an honor student attending advanced classes at Austin Middle School.”
Whoa! 12 years old, and she’s 5’6″ and weighs 120? She must be finishing her plate!
#39–Fusion==here’s another hypothetical: “What would happen if I were traveling thru space up to the speed of light?”
Thought experiments like this open up and explain the universe==whether it is the physical universe we all live in, or the personal universe of our contemplated lives.
Yes, my hypotheticals are meant to amuse, challenge, sometimes insult all to see that universe in a new world. NEVER my direct intent to merely insult. As you take this invitation to think in such manner, I will stop responding to you.
Live long and prosper—but sometimes think too? I can’t help myself==when was the last time you changed your mind? Mine was about 2 months ago. I decided gays should be allowed to marry. You?
#43, booboo,
Why not just STFU? If you had something relevant to add then great. You didn’t. You only wanted to play your little game.
You’re just another in a large collection of ADD infected boys. A wannabe that pretends he can psychoanalyze others. You might be smarter than Cow Paddy, or Lyin’ Mike, but that isn’t saying much.
#44 – Mr. Fusion
>>Why not just STFU?
Hey, that’s my line, mister!
So.. they couldn’t find the white women they were looking for, but they DID find a black girl outdoors and didn’t want to leave empty-handed?
She only got beat up for resisting giving away freebies. In what possible world would it really take 3 grown men to violently take down a 12 year old girl, even if she were immensely overweight or an athelete?