Starting Off the New Year Right

Officers abusing their power as usual. Richmond County Sheriffs Department under "investigation" for police brutality. 

Deputy William Geisen approached a Pastor and some of his congregation in a parking lot at Denny's.





                                                                               
                                                                                   Augusta, Ga.- A church group is in town from Florida for a church conference. The Pastor of the group is William Young and he is on his mobile phone in the parking lot of a Denny's on Washington Road in Augusta , Ga. Witnesses claim that a deputy zoomed into the parking lot, confronted Young and put him into handcuffs for no apparent reason. The incident report claims that Ruth Jean grabbed the officers arm whenever he attempted to arrest her Pastor. Jean was then subsequently put under rest for obstruction of justice.

Jean stated, "When I was on the floor, he had his knees on my back, and he was pulling my hair, but my hands were already like this," Jean said as she put her hands behind her back. "I don't know why he was doing that, until two other cops came over and he put me in a choke."  

Of course the incident was caught on cell phone videos and pictures. The Richmond County Sheriffs Department disputes any wrongdoing. As Always! The victims and witnesses believe that the deputies showed up and created mayhem for no reason at all. Harassing innocent people.

This is just another one of the hundreds of thousands of  police brutality cases in recent times. My God! They even harass Church going tourists. Was this incident racially motivated? Well, the victims and witnesses were Black. The sheriff deputies were White. There seems to be no justifiable cause for the police to have been on the scene. You decide.

Are the police just a gang of gun toting thugs that arrive for the clean-up or are they something else?