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"Today You Will Pay For It" Judge Vonda Evans Scolds And Shames Former Officer Who Brutally Beat Black Man
Sometimes, when I hear about the wayward, racist police officers who beat, shoot and kill often innocent, often unarmed Black men and women, I fantasize about what I would say to these people if I ever had the chance to meet them.
The likelihood of that happening is highly unlikely, I know; but now, thanks to the Honorable Judge Vonda Evans, I don’t have to.
Judge Evans presided over the case of William Melendez, a former officer in Inkster, Michigan, who brutally beat 58-year-old Floyd Dent after stopping him for a minor traffic offense. Dent pulled over, stopped and held his hands out of the car.
On January 28, 2015, instead of giving Dent a ticket for driving with a suspended license, a dashboard camera showed Melendez and his partner John Zieleniewski dragging Dent from his Cadillac before throwing him on the ground. They wrapped his arm around his neck, kicked and beat him, punching him the head 16 times and tazing him. Then more Inkster police officers arrived on the scene to watch without intervening to stop the heinous and unnecessary violence.
So caught up in a frenzy over their actions, Melendez and his partner continued beating Dent on the hood of their police car, directly in front of the dashboard camera, as blood ran down his forehead. Once he was arrested, the officers celebrated their actions by fist-bumping. After all of that, Dent was arrested for resisting arrest and possession of cocaine, which he alleged the police planted on him.
Dent was put in a cell where he heard police officers joke about his injuries as they washed his blood off of their uniforms with disinfectant.
Eventually, all the charges against Dent were dropped. He sued the city of Inkster and was awarded $1.4 million.
Sometimes, when I hear about the wayward, racist police officers who beat, shoot and kill often innocent, often unarmed Black men and women, I fantasize about what I would say to these people if I ever had the chance to meet them.
The likelihood of that happening is highly unlikely, I know; but now, thanks to the Honorable Judge Vonda Evans, I don’t have to.
Judge Evans presided over the case of William Melendez, a former officer in Inkster, Michigan, who brutally beat 58-year-old Floyd Dent after stopping him for a minor traffic offense. Dent pulled over, stopped and held his hands out of the car.
On January 28, 2015, instead of giving Dent a ticket for driving with a suspended license, a dashboard camera showed Melendez and his partner John Zieleniewski dragging Dent from his Cadillac before throwing him on the ground. They wrapped his arm around his neck, kicked and beat him, punching him the head 16 times and tazing him. Then more Inkster police officers arrived on the scene to watch without intervening to stop the heinous and unnecessary violence.
So caught up in a frenzy over their actions, Melendez and his partner continued beating Dent on the hood of their police car, directly in front of the dashboard camera, as blood ran down his forehead. Once he was arrested, the officers celebrated their actions by fist-bumping. After all of that, Dent was arrested for resisting arrest and possession of cocaine, which he alleged the police planted on him.
Dent was put in a cell where he heard police officers joke about his injuries as they washed his blood off of their uniforms with disinfectant.
Eventually, all the charges against Dent were dropped. He sued the city of Inkster and was awarded $1.4 million.