1 White Monroe Cop Charged after 8 Cops Stomped & Kicked a Homeless Black Man's Face as he Surrendered to False Arrest. Held for 2 Weeks in Isolation, Denied Meds & Phone. Bodycam Withheld

From [HERE] Monroe Police have confirmed, Jared Preston Desadier [racist suspect in photo below] has been booked into the Ouachita Correctional Center for second-degree battery and malfeasance in office. Desadier’s bond is set at $30,000. [more] Additionally, three Monroe Police officers have been placed on administrative leave, totaling four officers on leave.

The Monroe Police Department and The City of Monroe have released a statement regarding the excessive force complaint regarding the night of April 21, 2020, involving at least eight Monroe Police officers and Timothy Williams, a homeless Black man. Of the eight officers involved, the statement indicates that only two officers used force. Yet an arrest warrant for only one of the arresting officers has been issued.

Williams says on 4/21/2020 Monroe Police Officers stopped him on the street and asked to check his bookbag, he complied. It is not clear whether he consented to the search or if they took his bag and searched it. If he consented to the search it means he would have waived his so-called 4th Amendment right against unlawful searches & seizures. Clearly the cops didn’t have a warrant. As such, if he did not consent the cops would have had to have probable cause that he committed some crime involving something inside the bag to justify the search. If there was no PC then the stop and search were unlawful. Such details are unknown because the cops and dependent media have provided few details about the incident.

According to the arrest report, Williams produced a fake black handgun from underneath his shirt. [MORE] In a search, officers located a crack pipe in his pocket, the report states, and Williams fled the scene.

The report states the fake gun and crack pipe were logged into MPD's evidence lockers. Apparently possession of a crack pipe is a misdemeanor in LA.

However, when eight or nine officers surrounded him he said the situation escalated.

“I got scared and I started running,” said Williams.

When he realized he couldn’t outrun them, he surrendered.“I put my hands up and I got down on the ground, put my hands behind my back.”

Instead of being taken into custody, Williams alleges that he was beaten, battered, and bruised. “They thought I was nobody,” said Timothy Williams. “The officer came out of nowhere stomping and kicking me in my face and every time my face hit the ground I’d go to sleep, I’d wake up, I’d go to sleep, I’d wake up.”

He was then taken to St. Francis Medical Center where he was treated for a couple of hours. Then he was transported to the Ouachita Correctional Center. The police report said he was treated for "lacerations he suffered while trying to evade capture." 

“He was denied, I believe, it was two different prescriptions while he was in OCC and he also had seizures while he was in the rubber room,” said one of the attorneys on the case, Kristen Pleasant.

The rubber room, also known as isolation, was where Williams resided for two weeks. He couldn’t make any phone calls and had limited interaction with people.

As a result, Lead Counsel, Donecia Banks-Miley, and her team are calling for justice because Williams indicated this isn’t the first time police have put their hands on him. “This has happened to me in the past and I let it go because I had no help in the past,” he said.

The team has requested the bodycam footage, they say all inquires have been denied.“We want the city to be transparent, we want the bodycam footage because we believe it will speak for itself.” They are asking for a clearer timeline of when the body cam footage will be released. They believe it will prove Williams’ innocence and will show what really happened.

“No one is above the law. That is the whole reason body cam footage is there so it is what it is,” said Pleasant.

Williams’ counsel says the public is entitled to see that body cam footage. They’re also asking for the officers who didn’t help or report what happened to be held accountable as well. [more]

Williams is missing teeth and is left with multiple scars because of this incident. He says he still fears for his life but wants everyone to know that is it doesn’t matter the circumstance, every life matters even the homeless. “They thought I was a nobody, I was nothing just because I’m homeless. I am somebody, I am something.”

Authorities say they are conducting a criminal investigation based on a review of the body cam footage. Though this is a step in the right direction, lead counsel, Donecia Banks-Miley, says more needs to be done.

Questions still remain. This counsel wants to know why Williams was placed in isolation in the rubber room for hours once booked at Ouachita Correctional Center.

“We’re demanding answers for that. We are demanding to know why some of his medication was held from him, why he was not able to make the initial phone call,” said Banks-Miley.

Mayor Friday Ellis said “The City of Monroe and The Monroe Police Department will not tolerate or condone misconduct by officers nor the mistreatment of any of our citizens.”

The attorneys say one of the officers involved had been fired from the Monroe Police Department before, but he appealed, and his job was reinstated.

“We believe that Mr. Williams may not have been subjected to this type of brutality has his termination been upheld by the Civil Service Board,” said Attorney Jessica Williams.

“We want the public to know that there is a criminal investigation pending that’s against the officers,” said Pleasant. “We do not want it to be swept under the rug. We do not want a mere slap on the wrist just because these were officers that committed these crimes,” said Donecia Banks-Miley, Lead Counsel for Timothy Williams.