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| Pullman Police brutalize a shopper because of a bogus claim of passing off phony bills. |
In the federal lawsuit, the man claimed the cops used excessive force, violated his civil rights, his due process, and misrepresented events to make the claim of resisting arrest. The charges were dismissed later in court.
This happened last year in February.
Please watch & RT this horrifying abuse of power by the Pullman Police Department. Treshon Broughton was tased & assaulted for allegedly using a fake $20 that couldn't be found after his arrest. This isn't okay. pic.twitter.com/c1HZ90KQY6— Stounson (@stounson_) November 12, 2018
The man, Treshon Broughton was inside a local store with his girlfriend and friends. They were purchasing alcohol and snacks. The incident happened at a Bob's Corner Market where the two workers were having a long line of college students and a night of stressing.
Broughton was inside the store engaging conversation with one of the cashiers when the cop injected an order to show ID. During the incident, he pulled away from officers and refused to placed his hands behind his back as they tried to subdue him with a neck hold and other maneuver. One officer ultimately fired a Taser into Broughton's back. Officers and witnesses reported Broughton was drunk during the incident.
He was accused of trying to pass off a fake $20 at the store. He was never charged for the alleged offense and the fake bill was never found.
The Spokesman-Review sued for a public-records request. The videos were obtained and shown publicly to prove that the situation was clearly elevated by the cop and not Broughton.
The surveillance video has no sound and depicts a mirror image of the store. It shows Broughton and his girlfriend entering the store and walking immediately to the checkout counter where they spoke to a cashier.
Broughton and his friend briefly disappeared from the video. They come back up with a bottle of wine and a can of malt liquor. Broughton pays for the items with a card. After some conversation with the cashier and a man standing behind them in line, Broughton and his girl leave the store.
Broughton and his friend reappear in the video frame and interact with the cashier as well as a group of men standing in line with cases of beer. Broughton tries to pay for items with what appears to be cash, but the cashier apparently notices something is wrong with the currency as he places it in the register.
The cashier claims the bill look suspicious. He holds up the bill and another bill to point out they were different.The one Broughton gave him was slightly darker in color.
The cashier calls another employee to inspect the money, and Broughton eventually begins to leave the store again. On his way out, Broughton got into a verbal argument with a woman, her boyfriend and others.
The police were called and they arrived.
The cop, Shane Emerson enters the store just as Broughton comes inside behind him. Emerson didn't notice Broughton until they are both at the counter.
The body camera shows the encounter.
Broughton comes back asking for the cashier to return his card.
"You got ID with you, partner?" Emerson says, briefly placing a hand on Broughton's right arm just above his elbow.
"Yeah, yeah, I'll take it out," Broughton replies, still engaging with the cashier. "I mean, I got ID with me. It's probably somewhere around her, but."
"K, I need to see it," Emerson said.
"Fine, you can see it, whatever," Broughton says, placing a lighter and a tube of lip balm on the counter. "I don't care, bro."
The situation quickly escalates and then Emerson reaches for his right arm. Then the cop throws his arm upward while turning to the cop.
The cops said, "I don't care about your ID right now."
The other cop, Alex Gordon comes into the store and then he and Emerson pursue to restrain Broughton. Gordon hooks his arm around Broughton's neck and then strikes him with his knee.
The two cops pulled Broughton to the ground.
Emerson served the man a knuckle style chili.
Then a police intern who shadowed Emerson then steps into the frame. She tries to gain control of Broughton.
Gordon then deploys the Taser. Broughton then screams in agony and then is told to straighten his body out and soon he complies. The cops then place him the cuffs.
Emerson then talks to the cashiers and ask if the bill was in the register. The cashier said he didn't see the bill and couldn't find it.
Shortly after the arrest, Emerson tried to offer an explanation to some of the Washington State University students about the encounter.
Broughton, was a former member of the football team.
While talking about the situation, Emerson claimed Broughton was uncooperative, though he seems to embellish some of Broughton's statement.
"So, they told me he tried to use a $20, a fake $20 in there, all right," Emerson said. "So I needed to detain him. I said, 'I need to see your ID.' He said, 'I'm not giving you shit. I'm not working with you.'"
"Then he starts pulling away and trying to run, so w're trying to get him on the ground, and he was fighting," Emerson says. "I had enough reason to detain him and he was completely fighting."
Pullman Police Department claims that Broughton was seen on body camera footage shoving something into a toilet to flood his cell, telling the cops that he will not stop until they give him toilet paper. Officers removed him from the cell and place him in a restrain chair. He refused a paramedic check on him.
Broughton said to cops, that he doesn't want to die. He lost a family member to police brutality.
"You don't know what I've been through," Broughton says to the junk food media.
Police are doing damage control. After the video went to the press, many are calling for the cashiers and cops involved to be fired out the cannon.
Pullman PD takes seriously our responsibility to protect & serve our community and all of its members. We are listening and we care. In response to comments/questions about use of force in the Treshon Broughton case, Chief Jenkins has issued the following response: pic.twitter.com/BF5nGINvVx— PullmanPolice (@PullmanPolice) November 14, 2018
Do you believe the situation merits that?
Here's the videos. Be warned they contain disturbing images.
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