She Put the Taser in My Back. I Wondered if She’d Kill Me

I keep in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. I often work in warehouses, however I am purported to be going again to high school in January to be taught welding. And I am a dad. I’ve bought two daughters. One is about to show two and one other is due any day now.

That is all I used to be fascinated with once they put me in jail with a $500,000 bond.

When’s the following time I am going to have the ability to see my household? Particularly my daughter. And am I going to get to see my new daughter being born? That is what was going by my head.

It started once I had a blowout. I used to be on the passenger aspect of the automotive, on the bottom making an attempt to slip a jack beneath to get the automotive excessive sufficient to take the tire off. That is when a feminine officer from the Reform Police Division pulled up behind me.

At first, she appeared form of cool. She requested us what was occurring, so we instructed her, and he or she seemed on the tire. She stated she wanted to see some ID.

I requested her why would she must see our ID if we’re simply altering a tire on the aspect of the street? We weren’t doing something flawed.

She got here up with one thing, so I simply gave her my ID as a result of I did not need any issues together with her. As soon as she bought my ID, she additionally requested for my little brother’s who was there with me, and my co-defendant’s too.

Whereas she was getting their IDs, I used to be nonetheless asking her: What is the objective of giving our ID? Why do you want to run our names?

In order that’s when she began to get aggressive in direction of me. She stopped specializing in them and began specializing in me. She instructed me you want to go stand there on my automotive. I stated I am not beneath arrest, so I can’t stand in your automotive.

She grabbed me by the shirt and stated “now you might be”. She began utilizing pressure at that time. I grabbed my telephone, which was on the automotive, and I began recording her. That is once I realized she had tased me the primary time. I fell within the street.

Then she stood there together with her foot on my again. I yelled to my buddy to go get my auntie. When he took off operating, she saved her foot on my again whereas making an attempt to name in that my buddy had taken off.

That is when the viral video that my brother was recording begins. She was getting me up off the bottom. We get to the again of the automotive and I let her know I’ve bought a firearm on me, as a result of she simply slammed me on high of it arduous.

She grabbed the gun and he or she bought excited. You’ll be able to see from her face on the video. She laughs and says “oh yeah”. I requested why she was saying that. Then she began tazing me once more.

I am like: Oh my god. Is she going to kill me? Is she going to harm my little brother? Is he going to be OK? I truthfully did not know what to suppose. I did not know what she was going to do to us on the market.

It wasn’t an excessive amount of ache. I used to be simply pondering: What’s she going to do to us?

I am actually blessed that my brother began recording there. I really feel like we have slipped by the cracks as a result of there’s a number of soiled stuff occurring proper now.

After the video cuts off, she put me into the again of her automotive, after which she snatched my brother off and put him into one other police automotive that was on the scene.

The officer got here again to the automotive and stated: “That is going to be a great video for us to return and snicker at along with your little b***h ass.”

She had some vulgar language. She loved what she was doing. I swear she did. I may inform she was having fun with it.

Then she turned me over to the sheriff’s workplace. Her automotive did not have a dashcam in it or a pc that I do know of. There was nothing connected inside her automotive so far as I may see. They have to make use of our video for proof as a result of she did not have any cameras.

I instructed the officer she turned me over to that I used to be going to sue all of them. He stated “shut the f*** up and get within the automotive”.

After I bought to the jail, they often provide you with a telephone name. I did not get my telephone name.

They did not even put me in a holding cell. They put me in one other room, I feel a visitation room. The second officer got here in and instructed me “I really need you to attempt it”, referring to my risk to sue them.

I ignored that. I am simply wanting to speak to my household and allow them to know that I am OK. I did not get a great telephone name till the following day.

Usually they provide you a PIN so you can also make calls within the again, however I did not have that. They gave me the runaround for thus lengthy with their PINs so I may name my mother and father.

The one calls I may make have been in entrance of them, they usually made me put my calls on speaker.

I used to be in there from Saturday till Tuesday morning; the day they dropped a trafficking of fentanyl cost. I did not have any substances on me.

The fees I am nonetheless going through are obstruction of presidency operations, possession of marijuana, and resisting arrest.

The circumstances are I can not go away the state of Alabama. In the event that they name and wish me to do a drug check, I’ve bought to go and do it. I can not get into any bother or they’ll lock me proper up with no bond.

After I was inside, my household wasn’t notifying me of something that was occurring outdoors once I did speak to them. I used to be listening to little tales from corrections officers and my nurse within the jail. They have been telling me how viral the video had gone. Actuality did not hit me till I walked out the door.

I am scared. I wish to assist push the problem to the place everybody else will get justice however who hasn’t had the prospect. However on the identical time, I am frightened of all of the publicity. I do not know what anyone is considering doing.

I simply attempt to keep out of the way in which. I have been in the home more often than not since I bought out of jail. Or if I do exit, I cowl my face up. My life simply does not really feel regular anymore.

I am supposed to begin remedy to speak about issues. I will attempt to transfer on. My household helps me with that by being round. Most of all, I will put it behind me and concentrate on the larger image.

I have not acquired any apologies or something like that from the police. There’s a lawsuit coming.

However primarily, I simply need the officer who tased me to be charged. I wish to press costs in opposition to her. I would like her to face in entrance of a decide for what she did to me.

Micah Washington is a father from Alabama. Footage of his arrest by a Reform Police Division officer, who used a stun gun in his again whereas he was handcuffed, went viral on social media. He’s now being represented by the legal professional Leroy Maxwell.

All views expressed are the writer’s personal.

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