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Washington man beaten to death by police as he cried for help in front of witnesses
TND Article Spotlight: PoliceStateUSA.com |
Ron Hillstrom
UNIVERSITY PLACE, WA — A man having a mental episode was brutally beaten to death with flashlights, batons, and tasers as horrified onlookers watched. Witnesses and video confirm the man was crying out for help as repeated blows from police officers fell upon him in a darkened parking lot.
Police were called to the parking lot of an apartment complex on Sunday, May 11th, to talk to a man who appeared to be having a delusional episode. That man was 44-year-old Ron Hillstrom.
A neighbor, Ashley Patterson, told KOMO Newsthat she saw the whole thing. “He was kinda running around like this,” Patterson demonstrated, by running around in a circle. “He was like, ‘Help me, help me! Call the police! Call the police!’”
“They’re out to get me! They’re trying to set me up!” a second eyewitness told KOMO that she heard Hillstrom plea.
Around 9:45 p.m., Pierce County Sheriff’s deputies approached Mr. Hillstrom.
“I see four officers walking up on him and they’re like, ‘It’s the police,’ and he’s like ‘You’re not the police’, and he goes to run in the circle and as soon as he comes back the police used four tasers at one time,” Patterson recalled.
The commotion brought out dozens of witnesses from their apartments, who saw the encounter and shared similar accounts. Cell phones began recording videos of the encounter.
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Source: http://thenewsdoctors.com/washington-man-beaten-to-death-by-police-as-he-cried-for-help-in-front-of-witnesses/
