Honor Student Inexplicably Beaten by Police “I Awoke Spitting My Teeth Out On the Ground”
BLOOMINGTON IL- On June 29th 2013, Gabriella Calhoun’s life changed forever. The night was warm and clear, and after partying with friends, Gabriella and her friends decided to go to their local neighborhood Denny’s to get a late night meal. Gabby is an honor student at Wiley College. She finished high school a year early and went to college a year before the rest of her cohort.
Sitting on the left side of Denny’s so they can have a view of the parking lot, her crew of 17, all high school graduates, witnessed a fight between two girls. As the group of college bound students were ordering their drinks, the cops were called.
When officers arrived on the scene, they entered the Denny’s and approached Gabriella’s table and asked if they had anything to do with the fight. A friend, who shall remain nameless, told the officers that they were not involved with the fight at all at which the cops left and went back outside.
The two girls who were fighting outside were allowed to go into the Denny’s to “clean themselves up.” One girl was previously maced by a police officer in the parking lot for acting unruly. When the two girls saw each other inside of Denny’s, they started to fight again. The cops rushed into the restaurant to break the fight up.
As the cops tried to clear Denny’s, they again approached Gabriella’s table, at which a close friend of hers told the cops they were not involved with the party that was fighting. The cops grabbed the nameless young man, (he wants his name protected out of fear of retaliation), and escorted him out of Denny’s. Gabriella followed them and grabbed his side. As she exited the Denny’s she felt a grip on her neck and arm and says that out of reaction, she tried to pull away.
What happened next was unimaginable. According to her friends, Gabriella was hit in the face with a night stick by a female officer and was knocked unconscious. When Gabriella finally gained consciousness, the Wiley College Student said, “I awoke spitting my teeth out on the ground.”
Gabriella then stated, “When I came to, the officer begin to choke me again. When I was finally able to talk, I asked the officer to please let me go because I have asthma, but she [the officer], said, ‘I don’t care if you have asthma. You were hitting my officer.’”
“Afterward, the officer kept saying over and over again, ‘how was your party’ as she held my face to the ground.”
The female cop then lifted the petite honor student off of the ground, at which her b*****s were exposed because the tube top shirt she was wearing had rolled down. She asked the officer if she could please pull up her shirt, but the officer told her to do it herself. She then walked Gabriella all the way from the front of the Denny’s to the back where the cop cars were.
Gabriella was then sent to the precinct where she was booked on one charge of felony aggravated battery and two misdemeanors for resisting arrest.
“While at the jail, I received limited medical attention,” said Gabriella. “The doctors only gave me ointment and an icepack which I had to ask for.”
“I think this is racial profiling not only by the Bloomington police department but also by Denny’s,” stated Lynia Cooper, friend of the victim. “Nobody else in Denny’s had to leave except the African Americans in that area. The police didn’t hear us out and ultimately used cruel and unusual force on Gabby.”
Cooper added, “Might I add the police didn’t even arrest the females that were involved in the altercations.”
Your Black World tried to reach out to the Bloomington, IL police department, but they said they were unable to make an official statement because the case hasn’t gone to trial yet.
The entire incident left Gabriella terrified. “The whole situation is out of hand,” stated the frightened teen. “I don’t deserve this and now I hate to look in the mirror. When I look at what I use to look like to what I look like now, it hurts. I had the prettiest smile but now I have 3 fake teeth in my mouth. Nothing is the same. I have to train myself to talk with my new teeth.”
Civil rights activists are already trying to find out what happened to the student, but are seeking to hear the police department’s side of the story.
“I want to hear what the police have to say, since the burden of proof is on them,” said Dr. Boyce Watkins, who revealed the case of Kelly Williams-Bolar, the mother sent to jail for sending her kids to a school outside her district. ”But my father is a cop, so I know that her story is not inconceivable. Police beat law-abiding citizens for little things all the time, and regularly go outside the bounds of decency when exerting their authority.”
Dr. Watkins is meeting this week with the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton in Chicago, and says that he will get their inputs on the matter. Until then, the family is seeking answers and support from anyone willing to provide it. Watkins says that he is trying to figure out how a small woman required so much force to restrain, even if she was doing something wrong.
“This woman is the same size as one of my daughters,” said Dr. Watkins. ”Even if she were out of line, I can’t imagine someone having to smash her face with a billy club and knock her teeth out to get her under control.”
The victim’s mother, Montana Amy Calhoun, wants justice for her daughter. She has given the names and badge numbers of all officers on the police report, which can be seen below. She is also asking that anyone who can give information on resources for the family in the Illinois area, please reach out to them. If you know of resources in Illinois that can help the family, please leave the information in the comments section of this article and/or send an email to [email protected].
Names of officers involved in the incident (the asterisk is next to officers whom she says assaulted her daughter):
OFFICER JUSTIN GALE BPD 8845 *
OFFICER JEREMY CUNNINGHAM BPD 9359
SERGEANT EDWARD SHUMAKER BPD 6875
OFFICER IVY THORNTON BPD 7514 *
SERGEANT DANIEL HOENIGES 4009
Here is a link to the website for the Bloomington Police Department.
Source:
http://www.yourblackworld.net/2013/07/black-news/honor-student-inexplicably-beaten-by-police-i-awoke-spitting-my-teeth-out-on-the-ground/
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nice source…if it was yourwhiteworld it would be a nazi site and shut down! hey negro don’t go out that late to eat and you won’t get beat
Oh my… I just noticed that. I think all people are people regardless of skin coller so I think we just need to stop identifying our selves by our genetic diferences. Europe is like that they don’t seem to be as discriminating. Don’t get me wrong I have my likes and dislikes on physical level but that has nothing to do with whom I choose to hang out with or my associations. Our world just needs to quit and look at the big picture and unite as one with love and compassion towards each other.
Sorry to say but Europe is pretty discriminating also but in a different way, I think
More thug cops. And of course it was racist!! If this is a accurate account of what happened there should be some unemployed cops!
Any time a black is involved I bet you yell Racist. Drama, distracting garbage
Gee. On the one hand you have some African-American youths who are stereotyped as violent, unruly thugs. On the other hand, you have a gaggle of police who are stereotyped as violent, unruly thugs. You all deserve one another.
The whole situation can be explained by the fact that cops are now jack booted, torturing, raping, murdering thugs, who really enjoy their jobs. It doesn’t matter what color you are, because they will always enjoy making you or anyone else suffer and die. I bet the cop that caved in her face with the night stick, probably had a big cop-gasm.
The epidemic of cops brutalizing innocent civilians is just another sign of the fascist, bipartisan power grab that is destroying our democracy. The Bill of Rights is being systematically destroyed.
Yet another reason I vote Green Party!
I agreed with you up until you mentioned the Green Party.
“Green Parties” everywhere, are just fronts for more “progressive” policies. They’ll be no better than Democrats or any other socialists.
It’s a very sad fact of life here in these United States. If you don’t want to get the holy crap beat out of you. You do nothing provocative when the cops are involved, especially if you are Black. The metro police forces are the baddest gang on the block and the women are much meaner than their male counterparts. They have the little man complex and always have something to prove. What you do is to sit there, eat your food and drink your drink and do absolutely nothing, if you value tour teeth that is.
Deal with the police just the same as you would a gang of drunken Hells Angles, looking for a fight, because this the mindset of most urban cops. Is it right? Oh hell no, but what do you think you are going to do? Unless you plan on becoming a cop killer, the only thing you can do is to educate others about the situation and pray it never happens to you.
Especially if your black is what you wrote you lying racist trash.
I think people who are out at all hours of the night are asking for trouble. First rule of self defense don’t put yourself in a situation or area that can inadvertently affect you negativly…. In other words don’t be hanging out at Denny’s at all hours of the night.
In other words don’t be hanging out at Denny’s at all hours of the night.
No, free people have the right to hang out at ANY public place at ANY time!
This problem is too widespread to sue every brutal cop; it must be addressed politically.
There’s been a bipartisan, fascist assault on the Bill of Rights, using the Nazi model of pretending the destruction of our freedoms is somehow “protecting” us.
Yet another reason I vote Green Party.
Your Green vote sends a message to the Democrats that joining the Republicans in the fascist assault on democracy will cost them votes. And this message is sent even if the Green you vote for loses.
VOTE GREEN!
More “progressive” claptrap!
You have a better chance of ending it by voting Libertarian.
Who watches the policeman? Apparently not Internal Affairs.
I suggest this might end up costing that police department a good portion of its budget in law suits.
That college education for this honor student might just be at the city’s expense somewhere far from that city.
Then you have to consider the necessity of protecting those officers from justice. Someone might just take it upon themselves to do a little dental work on the thugs involved in this case. Then you might have a real problem.
We are basically a lawless society in many ways. No one obeys all the traffic laws. Go down any highway and you will see law breakers. Which makes a a law officer’s job just that more difficult. Then to have thugs making things worse, that is why internal affairs polices the police in a department.
I would love to see a background check on all those officers to see if they are clean or whether other incidents have occurred while they were on duty.
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Some cops need to be fired. They are NOT doing their JOB, which is to PROTECT people, not beat them up! That’s all I’ve got to say on this matter. FIRE THE BAD COPS! If a teacher did that the teacher would be fired. Why not cops!
“partying” = they were all out drinking all night probably still drunk and there was an unruly mob of girls who didn’t obey police orders to clear out the restaurant so they could defuse the situation. Some of the girls were fighting. The sane thing to do would have been leave and let the police do their job instead they insist they weren’t the ones fighting so they shouldnt’ have to leave. When they tried to drag them outside they probably got all belligerant and started shoving and hitting the cops. If she was such a good girl and such an honor student what was she doing out drinking all night at a place where there were a bunch of fights going on?
Dumbass Denny’s doesn’t serve alcoholic drinks
Denny’s is where most drunk young people end up after a night of partying…. no one said they got drunk AT Denny’s…….. Learn to read you mongoloid….
Dr. Watkins made a heep big boo-boo by bringing Jackson & Sharpton into this situation. These two race hustlers can at their mention turn the police into a sealed tomb, nothing in / nothing out.
Bet the BPD website didn’t put that in their ‘daily activity’ page. Maybe it came under ‘crime fighting successes’. Subscribe today for their enotify. Don’t call em ‘sceptic tanks’ for nothing.
Denny’s has security cams inside and outside of the establishments. Where is the video for us to see?
They are trying to start a racial war,any way possible. That is another way of bringing martial law. If WE THE PEOPLE looked at all these little pictures from the point of HUMANITY,we would recognize this right off. Just as they have been unsuccessful in creating Revolution in America,like in Turkey,Egypt,Brazil,etc.,they are PURPOSEFULLY creating racial strife,hoping this will trigger the New Civil War. My heart and prayers go out to the innocent victims of this evil agenda. We were all created by one God,but the powers that be will use religion,race,political views,economic and even environmental issues to cause Revolution to come to America,where we are supposed to be a country free of all these things,with the right to PURSUE HAPPINESS. Our leaders are CAUSING our problems,HOPING to bring a bloody mess like Egypt is now experiencing. As HUMANS,we should STAND TOGETHER,and REFUSE to allow them their VICTORY.
This is entirely unacceptable and the officers involved should be fired, fined and held responsible financially for the costs.
If it was “racial profiling” then prove that in court and sue the department even more.
Authority does not replace morality and using an excuse of they all “look alike” is what I would expect the female officer to claim. Which again is racial profiling and a lack of respect period.
Incest and molestation by priests leads to children developing into violent criminals, and cops, I guess. I have had considerable exposure to law enforcement officers, including parking ticket and weight tax warrants, without experiencing undue force or contact, but I have witnessed them victimizing the less fortunate. Fear of reprisal helps keep criminal police in line. Be calm and polite. Mean business. Follow through.
To serve and protect no longer applies to our police men.. They believe they have absolute power to enforce the law.. By any means necessary.. I hope this young lady sues them. A knight stick to the face is considered a lethal blow..BTW however they will say she assaulted a police officer and deserved it.. I would like to believe in our police. But here in the real world there are few good men left in our police force. Instead mostly power hungry macho men / women..
Pooooh ting. YOU shouldn’t HURT innocent people!!!!
Some white folks make light of this young black woman being beating senseless until it is their child wife, mother,brother,uncle father,grandfather or mother…. Then they will claim it is a police state…
Well Cops, are thugs with badges in many cases they are racist and quite frankly should not be employed as Police Officers..
They will stop when the citizens match their force with equal or more force.. We have a spineless Attorney General who will not address Police Brutality across the USA.. A police officer out on the west coast handicap son was beaten to death by White Cops.. and the victim was white but yet they were found not guilty of a crime… They killed the child of a fellow Cop …which they did not know was the kid of a fellow cop….
The President will not address this issue quite frankly no President in this Country has addressed Police Brutality,. I guess Kennedy,Hardin and Lincoln is a reminder to them Not to protest to loud about their so called Blue Brotherhood.
Faith in the USA, to do the right thing Hell No… The USA, our Governments and Leaders Political and Business have become Monsters… and they are no longer to be trusted.
Usurpers that use military and police to destroy the lives of Human Beings.. They are not Human!
Some white folks? You racist trash trying to push this into a realm of your made up lies. Nothing is especially for your favorite color.
Until the thug police receive the same physical treatment they will never understand.
I tell you this: MAKE THEM UNDERSTAND.
All of you are subjugated trash crying for blackie and trashing the memory of your own kind. There is no “one sided” assaults against blacks in this country. That is all this story and your comments say.
Your all racist trash…..
The real story is that this “crew” of SEVENTEEN black thug girls went to this location to watch a fight…A GANG THUG FIGHT..
Besides that I can give you 1000 stories of whites being beaten. There is no one sided ness they are beating every citizen.
You are trained to defend blackie just like you are trained to defend a jew. You never defend your own people or your self cause you think “it does not happen that much”. Idiots every blind one of you
Get some insight you spoon fed bot
Where’s the video? They have 50 Million Denny’s video’s, and this ain’t one.
Got to say it, and it may not apply to the facts here so don’t blame the messenger, but when you have a group of mixed men and women, and the police show up, and somebody gets hurt, it’s usually some woman who set it off.
That doesn’t mean the girl here set it off,
and it doesn’t mean she deserved what happened,
but there it is.
To all you Race Baiters: Suck it! To This Young Lady and Her Family and Friends: Getting Sharpton and Jackson involved is a huge mistake. Most of the people I know, and people with whom I have discussed these two Race-Baiters over the last 25 years, all have the same opinion of Sharpton and Jackson. We believe they are Opportunists, with no morals and no concern for anyone other than themselves, and will exploit human misery and misfortune in any way they can to get some attention. They are more likely to get this Honor Student Convicted of Attempted Murder than they are to get any charges dismissed. People despise them THAT much. What happened to these young people is a horrible, yet typical occurrence where Police are involved. The Denny’s Employees are lucky that the cops didn’t shoot them for filing a complaint. Go to a Legitimate Church for help. Neither Sharpton OR Jackson are in that category, in my humble opinion.