Bad Cops in Kansas: Lionel Womack’s Story
An Unarmed Black man was literally run over by bad cops in Kansas this weekend.
Luckily, he is alive, but injured. He deserves justice and these cops need to be fired and the department DEFUNDED.
Here is his story:
Newly released video shows a Kansas sheriff’s deputy mowing down a fleeing black man with his patrol truck, prompting a new federal lawsuit alleging excessive force.
Lionel Womack, a 35-year-old former Kansas City detective, said in a five-page complaint filed Thursday that Deputy Jeremy Rodriguez “intentionally swerved” his truck to run him over during the Aug. 15 encounter in a Kansas field.
The incident came after Womack was pulled over by Rodriguez over a traffic infraction.
“When the first officer turned his lights on, I pulled over and complied,” Womack told the Associated Press. “But when three additional vehicles pulled up quickly and started to surround my car, I freaked out.”
“I felt I was in danger,” he said. “This was out in the country, late at night, and it was dark. So I ran for my life.”
Police dashcam video shows the deputy’s pickup truck driving alongside Womack as he runs through the field, then swerving to the left and knocking him to the ground.
The truck then runs over Womack, who is seen writhing on the ground. He suffered injuries to his back, pelvis, leg and foot.
Michael Knuckelman, Womack’s lawyer, called the video “disturbing.”
“It is impossible to watch a video of a deputy driving his truck over Mr. Womack without feeling sick,” Knuckelman said. “There was nowhere for Mr. Womack to go. It was an open field and he was trapped, yet the deputy drove his truck over him anyway.”
Kiowa County Sheriff Chris Tedder did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday.
Rodriguez remains on patrol.
Womack, meanwhile, remains in jail on felony charges of attempting to elude police and several traffic violations.
His wife, Zee Womack, told the Associated Press that her husband faces another eluding police case in Texas County, Oklahoma, about five miles from the state line and just three days before the Kansas incident.
(https://nypost.com/2020/12/17/video-shows-deputy-run-over-fleeing-black-man/)
