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Dash Cam Catches Corpus Crisiti Employees Taking the Law Into Their Own Hands
Date of Incident: 09/14/14
Individuals Involved:
Outfit: Corpus Cristi Police Department
Website: http://www.ccpolice.com/government/ccpd/index
Phone: (361) 886-2600
Police were called to capture a suspect for killing three people and injuring a child. Once the suspect – 63-year-old Sammeul Toomey – was handcuffed, officers kicked and kneed him in the face. Then, Corpus Cristi employees Michael Smotherman and Daniel Jimenez rammed Toomey’s head into the grill of a cop car with full intentions to take the law into their own hands.
The suspect is now dead. According to police he hung himself in his cell, at the Nueces County jail, once arrested. Many are questioning that scenario and now employees of another outfit – the Federal Bureau of Investigation – are looking into the matter.
Floyd Simpson, the top-dog at the Corpus Cristi Police Outfit, said:
The actions taken by the officers are not those of the standards set by the citizens of Corpus Cristi.
If is going to admit that in public, he knows they acted in the wrong – but will they be held accountable? Clearly Simpson, and his colleagues at the Corpus Cristi Outfit, is enduring much push-back from people who, after seeing the unnecessary roughness, are asking questions – such as, “Isn’t a person supposed to be innocent until proven guilty?”
One thing this incident makes clear is how integral is objective footage during police interactions. If you are confronted, or witness someone else stopped, film the police.
KiiiTV.com South Texas, Corpus Christi, Coastal Bend
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