The police officer–Wiley Willis– brutally beat her after she asked to make a phone call, assuming it her legal right:
“You’re not going to let me call anybody? I have a right to call somebody right now and I know that. Is this on the record?”
Officer Willis handcuffed her and then turned off the camera while he beat her. When it was turned back on, she was lying in a pool of her own blood.
Before and After
The woman was arrested for suspected DWI last November 17. She refused the Breathalyzer and wanted to make a phone call. Officer Willis left her in a pool of her own blood with two black eyes, a broken nose, and two broken teeth. Tolerable? Yes, according to the police chief.
Chief Whitehorn said, “After reviewing the evidence, we decided it was something that needed to be handled internally and there was not enough to pursue criminal charges.”
But Officer Wiley Willis was fired over the weekend when the tapes became public, after three months of being on administrative leave. And he is appealing his dismissal.
Disgusting.
7 responses so far ↓
Multippel // February 21, 2008 at 8:42 am
This is really shocking. How is it possible to defense that kind of violence as nessesary force?
You must have a serious problem with the attitude in the police in US.
The Police in norway is the only one that have authority to use force against other citizens. A good policeman are able to solve very difficult situations with minimum of force.
The fact that this people are wearing uniform and are respected as a authority demands a behavior so that the citizens respect them. When the police begin with criminal acts like this, they loose the common respect.
The police should protect us. The police have to be able to handle people in very different situations….like phycoses and difficult behavior.
When the police defens themself with the argue that the handcuffed woman was so difficult that they do not have anthother choice. I think that is to tell the hole world that they are not abel to do good policework. Or it tells me that they have a attitude problem to people who in different ways are in theire custody.
I am shocked. I dont think the police in Norway are perfeckt, but I have never heard of such thing here.
Arturo // February 21, 2008 at 11:19 am
That asshole should rot in jail.
TheDeeZone // February 21, 2008 at 10:58 pm
Multippel,
Most police officers in the US are good officers. However it just takes one bum to make the rest look bad. I wrote about this incident as well as 2 others last week on my blog.
Anonymous // February 22, 2008 at 5:18 am
Has anyone considered why he would even turn the video camera back on?? They have said it is consistent with policy to turn it off after someone refuses a sobriety test. So why did he even bother to turn it back on????
William // February 22, 2008 at 9:54 pm
This is just like when the police beat up a girl at Reagan National Airport in DC. She has permanent brain damage as a result of the police beating. We need to halt this epidemic of police brutality against women.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPNmxZwhMag
Brittany // March 30, 2008 at 8:43 pm
wow, that lady was clearly drunk, and did that to her self.
maybe she shouldnt of been drinking?
shreveport boy // May 23, 2008 at 10:43 pm
Wiley did not beat this woman. She was in handcuffs and fell, that is what happened and the wound patterns confirm it. The media does not tell you how many accidents she was involved in before she made it to the stations. You people need to stop blindly following the media and realize there is more to the story.
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