Thursday, January 29, 2015

New video shows white Seattle cop arresting 70yo black veteran for carrying golf club

The Seattle Police Department is reviewing the conduct of an officer after she arrested an elderly black man who was using a golf club as a cane. Posting online, the officer also characterized civil unrest in Ferguson, Mo., as “chronic black racism.”
Seattle police released dashcam footage of the July encounter on Wednesday.
“You swung that golf club at me when I turned the corner at 11th and Pike,” Officer Cynthia Whitlatch said to 70-year-old William Wingate before arresting him.
The alleged club-swinging is not shown in the 20-minute video which starts out with Whitlatch — who is white — repeatedly yelling at Wingate to drop the golf club, calling it a “weapon” at one point. Wingate protests that he has been “walking with this golf club for 20 years.”
The video was obtained by The Stranger through a public records request.


“You just swung that golf club at me!” Whitlatch said in the video.
“No, I did not!” Wingate replied.
Wingate, an Air Force veteran who has no criminal history, was eventually arrested and booked into jail, according to KIRO.
Source and full story: Russia Today, 29 January 2015

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

What out Tiger you could be next!

Dan said...

Will the Video be edited for when it gets to the Jury, or just Denied as Evidence?
“You swung that golf club at me when I turned the corner at 11th and Pike,” is a Blatant Lie from the Officer as if you look close you might see it next to him, but every time he moves it he brings it straight up and down and NOT Swinging.
So are handicapped people required to have a permit to have a cane like a gun and they must have a medical release to even own a walking cane?
I have brought up in other comments that if anything that has been used in an assault or murder can not be out in public then everyone must be naked and not carry anything as even a Suit Tie is a noose, so all I have to do is grab one as they were wearing it.

Ajeocci said...

Where is this insanity that is infecting our police departments coming from? I suspect it comes from Obama and his so-called "Justice" Department. Police departments from coast to coast have become the enemy of the people they allege to serve. In response, the public now feels they are in danger from police and sheriff's officers and react accordingly. It's a vicious circle of mayhem. The officer in the story above is obviously not fit to wear a badge and a gun. She would appear to have serious mental problems. And what is wrong with the other police downtown? I would laugh at any officer who brought a 70 year old man in and said "he swung a golf club at me." Shame on her. What a piece of shit.