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Imperial Cops Murder Afghan Vet For Missing Plates (SHOCKING VIDEO)
Gateway Pundit ^ | May 20 ,2014 | Jim Hoft

Posted on 05/20/2014 9:43:33 AM PDT by Hojczyk

From the video: Tommy Yancy, 32, father of two, was savagely beaten to death by five law enforcement officers during a routine traffic stop near the city of Imperial last Sunday, on Mother’s Day. Yancy, a veteran who suffered from PTSD, served in Afghanistan and Iraq in the 259th Field Service Unit following the 9/11 attacks.

Yancy was stopped on his way to the store after a highway patrol officer spotted a missing front license plate on his vehicle. He was subsequently pulled from his car and attacked by a police K-9 unit, hit by a taser, and attacked by five officers until he succumbed to the beating and died. A witnessed, who filmed the incident, can be heard screaming on the recording: “How long before you guys call an ambulance? Call an ambulance!” According to the source of the video, who asked not to be named, his family has not been permitted to see his body, nor have they been given a cause of death.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CrzoWqAkSM

(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; donutwatch; tommyyancy
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To: anoldafvet

Sounds like I may want to get a copy of the Kentucky law regarding front license plates and carry it with me...


41 posted on 05/20/2014 10:37:58 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: GraceG

“He should have claimed he was an illegal immigrant from some central american country with a large population of african ancestry.

They probably would have waved him by...”

Better yet the thugs with badges would have given him the send off if he had claimed that he was an illegal alien, homosexual, Muslim who votes early and often!


42 posted on 05/20/2014 10:38:01 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Fido969; Balding_Eagle

I was kinda wondering. I mean, your job is dangerous when you are in iffy situations and NOT armed.


43 posted on 05/20/2014 10:39:12 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: Hojczyk

Most likely a case of mistaken identity. They thought he was a lab puppy.


44 posted on 05/20/2014 10:40:15 AM PDT by PistolPaknMama
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To: Hojczyk

‘Imperial cops’... unintended ambiguity and redundancy rolled into one?


45 posted on 05/20/2014 10:41:21 AM PDT by AD from SpringBay (http://jonah2eight.blogspot.com/)
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To: Hojczyk

He doesn’t look like a DOG. Why did they kill him?


46 posted on 05/20/2014 10:42:09 AM PDT by LeonardFMason (LanceyHoward would AGREE)
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To: cuban leaf; anoldafvet

If it’s anything like a beeber, you’d better take precautions...


47 posted on 05/20/2014 10:43:12 AM PDT by headsonpikes (Mass murder and cannibalism are the twin sacraments of socialism - "Who-whom?"-Lenin)
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To: headsonpikes

I just don’t want to get near anything that might cause me to get stuned!


48 posted on 05/20/2014 10:45:33 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: Fido969

The next time the Domono’s guy comes to your house, shake his hand warmly and say “Thank you for your service!”


True “heroes”!


49 posted on 05/20/2014 10:47:59 AM PDT by Freeping Since 2001 (Since 2001. Seriously.)
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To: Hojczyk
This is a tragic and at first tiny number of reports appears to be something that is definitely in dispute as to what really happened; but even if this is true "Another witness said that Tommy Yancy was “mad” and “uncooperative” during the traffic stop, but that police went too far in their beating. The California Highway Patrol is investigating the incident" the police went way too far and someone besides the CHP should determine that. IMO.

No one wants to innocently do or say something that LEO, necessarily on guard nowadays, will interpret as being “mad” and “uncooperative”.

It is strange however that a google News search ("Tommy Yancy") returned only four hits all local. This is a Rodney King moment that the MSM employees love.

50 posted on 05/20/2014 11:06:00 AM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: cuban leaf

“I’ve gotten three tickets for missing front plate.”

I got pulled over a few times in Ohio whilst driving my Dad’s LS-400.
“Officer, this car is registered in Florida. That’s a Florida plate. No front plates in Florida!”


51 posted on 05/20/2014 12:03:45 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Yeah, but I was driving in Washington state, with Washington plates. :-(


52 posted on 05/20/2014 12:15:10 PM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: Fido969; Balding_Eagle

How many pizza delivery guys do you read about killing innocent people?


53 posted on 05/20/2014 12:37:52 PM PDT by dangus
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To: Mr. Jeeves
Remember when only blacks distrusted the police?

Poor and working class whites were in the same place.

Cops have always found the poor the easiest to deal with, almost all police shifts can be completed with less effort and less push back, by dealing with the poor and working poor.

As a department, would you rather issue hundreds of DUI tickets, or PI tickets, or beat downs, or such, a year to blue collar slobs, and in poor neighborhoods, or to the $200,000.00 a year neighborhoods?

54 posted on 05/20/2014 2:25:10 PM PDT by ansel12 ((Ted Cruz and Mike Lee-both of whom sit on the Senate Judiciary Comm as Ginsberg's importance fades)
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To: cuban leaf

Tester = letter (damn autocorrect)


55 posted on 05/20/2014 2:48:07 PM PDT by anoldafvet (If you think the government is capable of taking care of you, just look at the indian tribes)
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To: cuban leaf
I’ve thought about removing my back plate when I visit the grandkids in Chicago for the I-pass lanes

I broke down and bought an I-Pass when they doubled the rates for paying with cash. I only go up there a few times a year but, save 5 bucks each trip using the I-pass. You can use the I-pass in other states such as Indiana and Ohio, but Kentucky isn't on the list..

56 posted on 05/20/2014 3:27:12 PM PDT by EVO X
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To: dangus; Fido969; cuban leaf

I think you guys know my post was hard sarcasm.


57 posted on 05/20/2014 4:35:41 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Want to keep your doctor? Remove your Democrat Senator.)
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To: Balding_Eagle

I was kinda hoping it was, but I wasn’t sure. There’s a lot of L&O Nazis, even here.


58 posted on 05/20/2014 5:23:39 PM PDT by dangus
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To: EVO X

We just avoid toll roads. Our grandchildren are in Algonquin and we never have a problem. ‘Course, we don’t go anywhere once we get there, but there is no need to. My wife and I have had our fill of the “city life” and are just fine outside of it. Funny thing is I’m in three bands in KY and love to hit all the rural honky-tonks, as long as I’m on stage.


59 posted on 05/20/2014 6:07:26 PM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: cuban leaf
We just avoid toll roads.

I tried that once and decided it didn't make financial sense for where I travel to. If I didn't have the I-pass and had to pay double with cash, I come out ahead financially. Even then I am not sure it worth it in terms of increased driving times and the potential for get robbed by red light cameras.

60 posted on 05/21/2014 4:12:48 AM PDT by EVO X
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