A mother in the Atlanta region is suing a police officer after he used excessive force after she refused to give him a chess set that belonged to the prior renter, bursting down the door to her house and pushing her to the ground while her son looked on in fear.
Khanay Yancey filed a federal complaint against Clayton County and Gregory Tillman, a Clayton County Police Officer.
I couldn’t believe it. Regarding the unprovoked assault that occurred at Independence Drive in Clayton County in 2019, Yancey claimed, “I was simply surprised after the door came smashing in and he [the police] immediately grabbed me.”
The policeman had been at her house after she allegedly failed to answer the door when her friend’s ex-boyfriend claimed to have left some belongings there, according to Yancey. To get them back, he had called 911.
“I wouldn’t allow him into that house.” I had kids there,” she said, according to 11Alive News. “He had been detained on charges of domestic abuse against my acquaintance.”
Unsettling bodycam video captures the cop yelling, screaming, and manhandling Yancey.
The bodycam footage shows her kid, who was at home throughout the assault, imploring with the officer, “Hey, sir.” My mother is having health issues, sir.
Because of the wounds she received during the violent confrontation, Yancey, who had some health difficulties before to the event, now walks with a cane.
The officer is seen in the video pushing Yancey’s knees out from under her as he tries to arrest her, causing her to tumble to the ground.
Yancey is saying, “You shattered my door,” and the officer is responding, “Put your hands behind your back.”
Yancey claims that she had to speak with the officer’s supervisor to help calm him down at one point during the hectic encounter.
According to Tanya Miller, Yancey’s attorney, “the only person who was armed and dangerous on that day was the cop,” according to WSB-TV.
The terrifying incident began when Clayton County officer Gregory Tillman arrived to Yancey’s Atlanta house at the request of a previous renter, whom Yancey characterised as her friend’s ex-boyfriend and who had been detained on domestic abuse charges against her friend.
The guy said he needed Yancey’s house to retrieve a remote control and chessboard he had left there.
According to reports, Yancey informed the guy that the goods he was seeking weren’t present in her house. According to a report, the woman said the guy had threatened her the day before the event.
Officer Tillman said that he responded violently during the 2019 incident because he believed his safety was under danger and that day, he feared for his life.
A supervisory board determined that Tillman’s behaviour was not appropriate.
Initially, it was decided to fire Tillman, but later, it was decided to suspend the officer for three days and provide him with more training, according to a report.
When DailyMail.com contacted Yancey’s lawyer for comment, they were not accessible.
Yahoo News stated that Miller claimed the officer had “violated the Fourth Amendment and their rules.”
Miller was quoted by 11Alive News as stating, “You cannot hire these policemen as workers, send them out into our neighbourhoods to police, and then when they do a horrible dreadful job claim that it is not your duty.”
Yancey is no longer facing any charges.
Yancey hopes that the county will “accept blame for their conduct” and that the litigation with the county will be resolved quickly.
“I’m still in amazement it ever got that far,” she continued.