Within hours of his call to 911 outside a convenience store, Sterling Higgins lay dead, after video shows him being forcibly restrained on the floor at the Obion County Jail in Union City, Tennessee.
A surveillance camera video from that morning, 15 months ago, shows a correctional officer gripping Higgins' neck and head for nearly six minutes, and part of that time his arresting officer with one foot on him. Then, Higgins' limp body was dragged to a restraint chair and wheeled into a cell.
The video, submitted in a wrongful death lawsuit filed in federal district court in Tennessee, is at the heart of another claim that yet another black man needlessly died in custody because of law enforcement misconduct. All the defendants have denied the allegations in legal filings.
Those videos were never shown to a grand jury that, last October, declined to indict any of the officers involved, as first reported by WSPD, in Paducah, Kentucky. The 27th District attorney general, Tommy Thomas, told CNN he didn't see the need to show jurors the video because he already had decided not to seek criminal charges against the officers.
#SterlingHiggins #CNN #News
License to kill. Coupled with racist intent. Fueled by herd mentality. Grounded in fraternity style rules. Promoted by the dollar bill.
@C-Mo 313 you simple minded mzungu. Trying to claim that what your eyes see isnt true. You must be either extremely stupid or extremely racist. Pick one. Or are you both?
For 526 seconds….think of one thing and only one thing that you want in your life, in silence and darkness. You will never yearn for anything as much as George Floyd did for a single breath.
@a r or this brother
Racist intent, but they kill more whites each year and we don’t even see one single video. Stop lying. This is an agenda
Equal crooks
Why bother show VIDEO EVIDENCE! Unbelievable.
They put his body in that chair, KNOWING the cameras were running, so they could claim he was “alive” at that time, and making it look like he died Later
U called it
It’s obvious his motionless body was dead!
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what, you thinbk that democrats are in general kiddy diddlers?
@100% af danske politifolk er idioter that’s Trump.
What about the guy..whose back they broke some years ago..and left him in a room without food and water…..no..he couldn’t get up to feed himself..and they didn’t call the medics until he died…
Sooo sad!
What was his name?
Info on this please
Why they strapped a lifeless man to a chair, to make it look fake. Why they didn’t have to think about it I’d guess they’d done it before and knew how to try to cover it up.
@Raven Stark Oh, so facts are now lies? Ever read a history book, know the first man killed in the revolutionary was black, did he die for Ideology or racism? Seriously, you graduate high school?
Slime bag yanks.
Point blank period pure evil
Exactly
@J West Go home and stay there.. Literally.! Clearly you have too much unsupervised free time. Your Ignorance is the identical ignorance of your people. The ignorant one’s. Get a lollipop and sit in a corner.
The men and women who serve as police officers should be better trained than this. This is unacceptable
typical blue kkk soldier and they dare play the drama queen when people defend themself souless animalls
It’s a fact known to everybody around the world that the USA police has a less training to compare in europe or Asia, probably some countriess in Africa and the reason is this. In Sweden if where i’m from, when you want became a police office, you’ve to have full diploma from Highschool and be strong, all the major sport like, running, swiminng, lifting your own body weight, doing like pull ups, push ups etc, after you finish that, we’ve to go through physical and psychological test. If we pass all that then we’ve to study tre full years in colleg just to became an police office in Swedish police academy which means every police office in Sweden has a bachleor degree. What’ve heard in the USA is between 12 to 14 weeks training. Let’s be clear that is not how to serve your own ppls intresse. Don’t ger me wrong, i’m not a hater, hoppe you all get my point
proof https://youtu.be/BWYdJ6UHiwA
Why do the courts feel compelled to be in cahoots with these criminal minded cops?
They’re together
@muhammad was a pedophile caravan robber That’s because you fascist trolls bring our average down.
They are in cahoots with criminal members of law enforcement & correctional officers. The criminal “justice” system is unjust.
The entire nation that votes or pays taxes is complicit (in cahoots).
Because they stay on code
It’s a special kind of evil that allows someone to choke someone else out on camera and without absolutely any repercussions. I hope they throw the book at all these dirty cops and I want them in general population. That’s enough already.
Lol
@100% af danske politifolk er idioter I have ScreenShot your posts and reported you to the FBI as a foreign asset posting lies and propaganda in an attempt to influence the election. Enjoy being on that watchlist traitor.
@100% af danske politifolk er idioter
What about pedophiles of other political parties? Do you support them, or just choose not to mention them for some reason…what might that reason be, I wonder.
So evil begets evil. And you espoused that Monique. May they and you never hurt or espouse evil again. But. I’m sure like most trolls of humanity, as is evidenced by your evil comment, you will.
@Raven Stark Fixation. The inability to show concern and compassion and responsible behavior unless instigated by the actions of others. Thus the silence as you speak of.
“…he saw no need to show the video to the jury as he had already decided not to press charges against the officers.”
What is this, 16th-century England’s jurisdictional discretion?
Yes, it’s always the same, every generation believes they are more educated, more civilized, and more enlightened than previous generations, although neither our judicial, health, or educational systems have evolved significantly over time.
As hated and despised over here, 🇬🇧, as over there, where it’s taken root and spawned.
I’m going to throw up! Sickening! That cop literally chocked him to death while he was looking at him! I saw it with my eyes!
Andrew Mounce yeah you’re probably right…..I’m sure he just held his breath till he died 🤦🏻♀️
Andrew Mounce people like you are the problem
@Andrew Mounce a dead one?
@lilly mclilly savage
lilly mclilly thanks for the commentsillywillyvanillawillie..it was pretty bad
Dirty cops, dirty coroner, dirty district attorney & dirty judge. That’s our problem.
@Dan Smith this system is not ours. And I’m not talking black and white.
Solano County is on the list
are you suggesting that democrats are not only pedos but also corrupt to the core
It’s a total sh*t show! The entire infested swamp must be drained, replace the criminals in authority with humane individuals who uphold the law, not break it whether or not the cameras are rolling.
They’re scamer’s
What more people need to hear about is what happened to Breonna Taylor, an EMT shot by police multiple times after a no-knock raid.
Please spell her name correctly
@Kaitlynisdemocrat That just shows how little is mentioned of her. I didn’t even spell her name correctly. Thanks. I’ll edit my comment.
@Jay Johnson Okay. I will correct it now.
@Christopher Colon cry about it racist. We are talking about real problems here.
She was a EMT idiot
police: why do people hate us?
also police:
@J West That’s a lot of scripted, copied and pasted anger there.
I think you have been in lock down too long.
Who else miss Donkey Kong?
@J West i see your making sure you post this same comment in everyone’s reply, i think your the killer
@J West CNN didn’t delete your comment, your comment was probably reported because it looks like spam because it reads like a 5th grader wrote it.
@J West if one of you white boys even look at me wrong you will go bye bye to meet Jesus. I won’t take the time to figure out if you are racist or not.
How many cases like this are they hiding
@Emmett Tuff Who justified them? The police? Lol
@Mick E search for yourself..
@Bmore Riseup google it…5000 since 2015….10000, between the years of 07 to 17…
@D Goshay who else…. the police control the narrative, and dead people can’t defend themselves… so in cases where there’s a shooting , with no camera footage…the police can pretty much say, the suspect was coming towards me with a knife, throw a knife on the scene and it’s justified , no questions asked…happens all the time. I’m not saying that all are injustices, because I’m sure there are ligitamite kills, but 99.9% with the way they act these days…that’s bogus, which means there are alot of cold blooded murderers out their with a badge….
I think enough to make every decent American to literally throw present administration out to the curb fromthe white house
I bet those guys thought they were in the clear after the “autopsy”…Not anymore
Dude was still high on meth, they should’ve put him in isolation until he gets back to his senses.
Higher charges and higher penalties for abuse of power! Nationalized criminal cop database. No more military equipment and lethal force training.
Malvakai P wow,zippy,did you think up that yourself
“I’d already decided.” Time to vote out our District Attorney.
This is why the protests won’t stop, SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE AT HOME!
No justice…no peace!
It’s part of the reason why you and all like you do nothing for children at risk.
Please stop using the murder of a man as an excuse to say you actually are pro active or to claim anyone but the APA, child abuse investigators and collateral workers are. I should know. My 6 year old son was a victim of your inactivity and concern.
Know thy country. Or claim others do.
Lol, Fredo has your best interests in mind. The fool who got caught during the covid hype.
NO JUSTICE… NO PEACE
The District Attorney & Medical Examiners Office are BAD APPLES!