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Large Sarge
6th July 2010, 03:10 PM
Hays County Texas deputies accused of excessive force against 80yr-old man and his son
By David Packman, on July 4th, 2010
80-year-old Robert Threadgill after his encounter with four Hays County Texas deputies.

It was about 6:00pm on June 22, 2010 when Robert Threadgill, 80-year-old former member of the 1970′s singing group “The Threadgills”, had realized that he forgot his fishing pole at a nearby community-property creek called Woodcreek behind his condo where he fished often and had walked over to retrieve it. While there, still on a community property section of lawn, Mr. Threadgill apparently got into a minor verbal dispute with an employee of a Cypress Creek Falls Lodge, who was on another side of a fence next to their property, about debris those employees would throw into the creek.

The Cypress Creek employee apparently called the Hays County Sheriff’s Department after the dispute and apparently reported that Threadgill was trespassing even though he never crossed the tall fence that separates the properties. Four Hays County deputies arrived in response to the call and, Threadgill claims, when he saw the deputies talking with the employee he walked over and asked them to come over to his side of the fence so he could explain what the dispute was about.

However, when the deputies crossed over they immediately told him that he was trespassing, even though he was still on the opposite side of the fence. At this point Mr. Threadgill’s son, Stephen, began to walk over to see what was going on when his father told him everything was fine and to just go back to the house. At that point, things took a strange turn for the worst when two deputies allegedly tackled Mr. Threadgill to the ground, grinding their knees into his back and his head while another deputy approached Stephen, as he was walking back towards the house, and apparently hit him from behind with a baton and knocked him unconscious.


A neighbor, who witnessed the incident, confirmed that he saw two deputies throw the 80-year-old Threadgill to the ground then jump on his head and back while wrenching his arms behind him until Threadgill screamed out in pain. He then looked over to see Stephen unconscious on the ground with two other deputies handcuffing him.

The neighbor then claims that he watched as the deputies dragged both Stephen and Robert then threw both of them between rungs in the fence so that they both landed face-first on to the pavement on the opposite side while their hands were still cuffed behind them. He says that they then dragged Stephen about 70 yards, while still unconscious, across an asphalt parking lot until his knees were skinned to the bone. The elder Threadgill claims that deputies told him he was resisting since he couldn’t get his feet underneath him fast enough as they dragged him along the ground as well.

While deputies tossed Threadgill and his son into patrol cars Robert’s wife was trying to tell her husband that she was calling their other son when she too was threatened with arrest. However, before deputies could leave, two Fire Dept EMTs, who weren’t called but were nearby and decided to stop, examined the two and informed the deputies that they had to be taken to the hospital before taken into custody due to their injuries, especially since the younger Threadgill was still unresponsive.

While no charges were placed against Stephen, who suffered a concussion, broken ankle, as well as back and rib injuries, a warrant has been filed for Robert Threadgill on a stand-alone resisting arrest charge while he has been recovering from a shoulder injury, that will require surgery to repair, in addition to injuries to his face and leg… but, so far, neither have been cited for trespassing.

The neighbor who witnessed the incident says he is “horrified that this could happen in a quiet little town” and that “there was no violence or threats until police arrived and, even then, the only violence done was by the four deputies.” Threadgill’s daughter says she’s worried since her dad now has to pay $1,000 bond on the resisting charge and lives on a fixed income.

Gaillo
6th July 2010, 05:56 PM
The neighbor who witnessed the incident says he is “horrified that this could happen in a quiet little town”

This is the misperception that MUST be overturned. There are NO "quiet little towns" and safe havens any more from the growing tyranny that is destroying this country and the world. People need to stop feeling "safe", and start seeing the situation for what it is... a life-and-death threat to EVERY man, woman, and child regardless of class, location, or age.

Awoke
6th July 2010, 06:02 PM
These testosterone-riddle NWO pigs are going to shit their pants when the common man has had enough and finally decides that community vigilante justice is due. The brutality just keeps on keepin' on with these losers. how much longer until the people snap?

StackerKen
6th July 2010, 06:29 PM
Man...That story just makes me sick....gave me anxiety for some reason....I don't like that feeling...

I think I need a beer. >:(

Hermie
6th July 2010, 06:32 PM
These testosterone-riddle NWO pigs are going to sh*t their pants when the common man has had enough and finally decides that community vigilante justice is due...


+100!

BrewTech
6th July 2010, 06:39 PM
These testosterone-riddle NWO pigs are going to sh*t their pants when the common man has had enough and finally decides that community vigilante justice is due.


One would think that the common man has had enough already. The fact that hasn't makes me think he never will.

Hermie
6th July 2010, 07:19 PM
These testosterone-riddle NWO pigs are going to sh*t their pants when the common man has had enough and finally decides that community vigilante justice is due.


One would think that the common man has had enough already. The fact that hasn't makes me think he never will.




I understand what you're saying, but I really think it is getting closer to happening.
Feels like it.
"Tipping point" and all that.
Wonder what it will be that will set it off...

TPTB
6th July 2010, 07:34 PM
WTF? This article reads like a fish story to me, as in fake or at least wildly exaggerated. Is there a link?

It doesn't appear to be a News report. Not that local News reports are trustworthy, just that local news get all their reports straight from LE, and this is not copy off a Police report.

Mouse
6th July 2010, 07:37 PM
In a small town, one must be wary of snipers in the trees. Everyone knows who these guys are and it isn't rocket science to hunt the hunter. I believe these types of injustices will grow so frequent and menacing that certain thugs will start disappearing mysteriously once the public gets pissed enough. There is always a victims brother, friend, father, sister, mother who will be so mortified by what they have seen as to take private, quiet, and effective counteraction.

Tumbleweed
6th July 2010, 08:11 PM
[/quote]

I understand what you're saying, but I really think it is getting closer to happening.
Feels like it.
"Tipping point" and all that.
Wonder what it will be that will set it off...
[/quote]

Probably be something like this Hermie. It's not a good idea to mess with some peoples family or friends.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw3g7gT4OBo

StackerKen
6th July 2010, 08:52 PM
WTF? This article reads like a fish story to me, as in fake or at least wildly exaggerated. Is there a link?

It doesn't appear to be a News report. Not that local News reports are trustworthy, just that local news get all their reports straight from LE, and this is not copy off a Police report.


I was gonna ask for a link too.
Instead I looked for it on the web
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=80+yr+old+man+brutalized+by+4+deputies

It seems to have been posted here 1st..
http://www.injusticeeverywhere.com/?p=2709

.not sure though...

I don't see it on any "news" sites....but it could be.

silver_surfer
6th July 2010, 09:16 PM
As long as the cops made it home safe is all that matters

gunDriller
7th July 2010, 01:24 AM
In a small town, one must be wary of snipers in the trees. Everyone knows who these guys are and it isn't rocket science to hunt the hunter. I believe these types of injustices will grow so frequent and menacing that certain thugs will start disappearing mysteriously once the public gets pissed enough. There is always a victims brother, friend, father, sister, mother who will be so mortified by what they have seen as to take private, quiet, and effective counteraction.


Mother Nature will provide ...

Awoke
7th July 2010, 03:41 AM
As long as the cops made it home safe is all that matters


HAHAHA!

Thanks for the laugh...

TPTB
7th July 2010, 08:25 AM
WTF? This article reads like a fish story to me, as in fake or at least wildly exaggerated. Is there a link?

It doesn't appear to be a News report. Not that local News reports are trustworthy, just that local news get all their reports straight from LE, and this is not copy off a Police report.


I was gonna ask for a link too.
Instead I looked for it on the web
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=80+yr+old+man+brutalized+by+4+deputies

It seems to have been posted here 1st..
http://www.injusticeeverywhere.com/?p=2709

.not sure though...

I don't see it on any "news" sites....but it could be.



It appears to come from a FaceBook page by the family of the 80 year old dude, Robert Threadgill.

If the story (and it IS just a story at this point) is even marginally true, then those thugs in uniform need to be put down like rabid dogs and the department (township, county or incorporation responsible for their training needs to be sued into total oblivion.

The story definitely gets the emotional juices boiling.

bellevuebully
7th July 2010, 09:45 AM
how much longer until the people snap?


How much longer?.....when 80% of the people in Toronto DON'T think the cops did a good job of law enforcement during the G20. In other words a long time. I wouldn't hold my breath.