a former Henri County Sheriff's deputy is now facing federal charges after the FBI says he slammed a man to the ground and then lied about it in a police report but I tell you what I when I watched the uh body camera I was shocked and I was appalled sir I did not come on br br up against me again I'm going to throw back on this asphal you understand no sir I understand you understand me I I respectfully respectfully so former deputy Williams grabbed the man by the shoulder and threw him to the ground welcome back to the Civil Rights Lawyer Channel first I want to thank you because yesterday afternoon we finally surpassed 500,000 subscribers on YouTube and obviously that wouldn't happen if you guys didn't watch the content but this type of content is very important so please if you haven't already subscribe both here and at thecivilrightslawyer.com there are some crazy things coming up I promise you that this is crazy also in this video we're going to talk about this Hendry County Florida Deputy who was fired and now indicted by the feds for violently taking down this guy he had in his custody in handcuffs but this isn't the first time that he was fired he's actually been fired before after we go over what happened here then we'll go over this guy's history and I'll make sure that we're on the same page as far as what constitutional violations occurred here last year on the 4th of July former deputy Tyler Williams of the Henry County Sheriff's Office arrested a man suspected a burglarizing a residence as captured on his body-worn camera former deputy Williams placed the suspect in handcuffs and walked the man to the rear of his police vehicle to conduct a search no no I cannot say nothing can I please yes sir yes sir sir I did not no what what do you mean you were in the back come on bro BR bro so let get my car oh my God push up against me again I'm going to throw your ass back on this asph you understand no sir I understand you understand me I I respectfully respectfully so former deputy Williams Supervisor was also on the scene and the two had a conversation about the events leading to the suspect being placed in handcuffs um no I will push I will put my S back up there a loges hitting the window in my face like oh okay no sir light com out standing there with the log actively bashing the window as I am trying to put it back not I am fully lit in this bedroom during this conversation the suspect attempted to talk to former deputy Williams and to interject himself into the conversation on multiple occasions in response to to one of those times former deputy Williams grabbed the man by the shoulders and threw him to the ground handcuffed the victim was unable to brace himself for the fall former deputy Williams threw the man to the ground with sufficient force that he was rendered unconscious after his chin hit the asphalt as the body camera shows former deputy Williams stood over the man as he lay motionless and yelled at him telling him that he was warned to not push against former deputy Williams I tell about pushing up against me you understand me the Henry County Sheriff's Office terminated Williams employment for multiple policy violations and last week a Federal grand jury sitting here in Fort Meyers Florida returned a criminal indictment against former deputy Williams charging him with two counts one count which is a civil rights violation and a second count which is account for obstructing justice by falsifying a police report he is facing up to 30 years in federal prison so that was Roger hanberg the US attorney for the Middle District of Florida basically the head Federal prosecutor announcing the Federal indictment of former deputy Williams now you're going to hear from the actual Sheriff who hired this guy after he was fired somewhere else and who employed this guy and then fired him himself after for this incident occurred this is the sheriff of Hendry County Florida and I've never heard of Hendry County Florida to be honest with you this is Hendry County Sheriff Steven Whitten but I tell you what I when I watched the uh body camera I was shocked and I was appalled you know when uh we swear a deputy in he has great power and with that comes great responsibility and what I saw on this body camera it violated the trust of our community that trust is so sacred and we work very hard to keep that trust between our deputies and our our community of Hendry County uh which is one reasons why we have body cameras because it it it documents everything that they do you know initially when I saw this again shock and awe um he was placed on administrative leave immediately uh we forwarded it over to the uh the United States attorneys for a federal investigation and uh he was ultimately terminated so understand that in any law enforcement agency people file complaints all the time and and and I want to say this to that before I got body cameras we we got tons of complaints once we had body cameras you know we're a small County we we didn't we don't have the mass media that we have over in Lee County or bigger agency so we didn't put it out in in a mass form that hey we now have body cameras but I can tell you we've had them for probably six or seven years now 99.5 or higher percent of all complaints that I get on deputies are absolutely false and prior to joining the Hendry County Sheriff's office Williams had served 5 years as a police officer with the Fort Meyers police department but then he was fired on February 23rd 2021 after an internal investigation claimed that he violated four policies during a January 2020 traffic stop that led to the death of a toddler in his 5 years with Fort Meyers Williams was put on paid administrative leave once following an officer involved shooting in 2017 that he participated in but that's not all he wasn't just fired from Fort Meyers a further investigation reveals that he was actually arrested and charged for failure to contact DCF about an endangered child who later died 3-year-old Serenity Robinson was killed in February of 2020 in a violent crash on Dr Martin Luther King Boulevard Fort Meyers Police Department Officer Tyler Williams pulled over Leslie Joe zegler Serenity's mother on January 18th and found heroin and meth in the car with Serenity in the back seat that was January 18th then on February 17th the mother was driving again when she blacked out while high left the road and struck several trees the vehicle rolled and serenity was ejected she died at the hospital the police said that Serenity wasn't restrained at the time of the crash the law required that officer Williams should have reported the mother to DCF but he didn't Williams was then placed on leave February 20th pinning an internal affairs investigation the completed criminal investigation into Williams led to an arrest warrant resulting in the criminal charges for knowingly and willfully failing to report known or suspected child abuse abandonment or neglect as a mandatory reporter the charge is a third deegree felony he was actually arrested taken to jail and placed on a $110,000 bond those charges were later dismissed by a judge but he was fired by Fort Meers and then he pops up again in Hendry County so one of the Federal Criminal allegations against former deputy Williams is that he falsified his police report in order to make it look like his use of force was justified there is a Supreme Court case called Scott versus Harris and that says that even if cops lie the federal courts are free to completely disregard what they say if there's video footage of the incident that shows that the is clearly lying I had a federal judge once say in a court order doing this saying who you going to believe me or Your Lying Eyes and that's exactly what we have here it doesn't really matter what he says because we can see that this guy's handcuffed that he's compliant he does claim in the video that he's pushing against him we can't see any resistance whatsoever but what what we can see is this officer losing his temper he loses his temper and after threatening to do so he basically grabs the guy does a wrestling takedown and since the guy's handcuffed he can't catch his fall he's completely defenseless and he hits his head and then if you watch the raw body cam footage which is terrible the guy is completely out completely out and the supervisor just standing there clearly doesn't know what to do while former deputy Williams just kind of he keeps talking continues the conversation with the supervisor like nothing's wrong it's crazy he's been out here for a while his legs are at up mosquito bites yeah she doesn't know how he got here cuz she again she said she kicked him out of the car after he bashed her face in and spit on her she p on the side of the road and kicked him out and she go she doesn't know how he got over here he she believes he lives in Lehigh I don't know how to [ __ ] take take it out of a [ __ ] um like you know what I mean so he's been here for a hot minute Florida is in the 11th federal circuit so we would look first to 11th circuit case law on what is and is not excessive force under any particular fact scenario but there's going to be a lot of cases in every federal circuit that says that you can't do this to somebody who is handcuffed and not resisting just briefly the US Supreme Court in a case called Graham versus Connor set out three different factors for the lower courts to look at to gauge whether or not a police officer used excessive force the first Factor they look look at is the severity of the crime at issue here he was a potential burglary suspect so let's give him that potentially serious crime and issue secondly whether or not the individual poses an immediate safety threat to any individual what are the facts he's handcuffed he is shown on video being compliant he's not resisting at all he's not fighting the officer at all he doesn't pose a threat to any individual in the world second factor which is the most important goes against off officer former deputy Williams the third factor is whether or not he's attempting to flee or resist and he's not he's already in custody he's compliant he's just asking questions he's talking so just the officer having the first factor in his favor potentially severe crime at issue that's not going to be anywhere near enough that's an easy prosecution that's an easy civil suit under section 1983 as always thanks for watching again thank you very much much for putting us over 500,000 subscribers Please Subscribe both here and at the blog at the Civil Rights lawyer.com you can also join the conversation with me about this about civil rights topics and about completely unrelated history things over at X at John Brian Esq also you can find me on Facebook where we're about to pass 400,000 followers on Facebook at the John hban attorney at law page if you have a video you want me to review please use the submission link 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