Dayton Police Rule Dayton Police Didn't Use Excessive Force While Dragging Paraplegic Man From Car By His Hair

Well, I guess that settles the case then!

Perhaps you remember the now-forgotten story about Dayton driver Clifford Owensby, the paraplegic man that Dayton police officers dragged from his car by his dreadlocks as Owensby screamed, “I’m paraplegic bro!”

That fateful Sept. 30th stop originated with Owensby’s tinted windows on September 30th, and Dayton’s finest took 260 days to investigate the incident we all saw with our own eyes, and they have cleared the officers of any major wrongdoing.

From Peter Nickeas and Amanda Watts of cnn.com:

The two involved officers were exonerated by the department in connection with the allegations of excessive use of force and not reading Owensby his Miranda rights. The report also determined Owensby's allegations that officers threatened violence and mocked him were "unfounded."

The officer's "pulling of Mr. Owensby's hair may have been visually offensive to some people, but in reality the hair pulling was on the low end of the force spectrum and did not cause injury," investigators found. "Mr. Owensby was removed to Grandview Medical Center where it was confirmed he was not injured during the incident."

There must have been NSA-level police work involved in finding Owensby’s allegations of being mocked and threatened considering by the DPD’s own admission, officers muted their body cameras for some reason during the entirely justified assault on the street over a minor traffic offense.

“Dragging a paraplegic man by his hair into the street might seem uncouth to some people,” investigators said. “But the officers deserve high praise for not shooting Mr. Owensby to death in front of a child who was riding along with him.” That’s what investigators wanted to say.

The report also recommended the City of Dayton Law Department and the police department's general counsel and training bureau conduct reviews to determine if policies should be changed or training updated. There was no policy in place at the time of the traffic stop that dealt with "how to best transport a disabled subject," the review stated.

I wonder how much public money was used to fund this investigation? Only for the end result to be DPD blaming their lack of institutional training on the lack of city policies, which they would have ignored anyway like they did with mask and vaccine mandates.

This technique is what the Dayton Police Department’s investigators dubbed, “transporting a disabled person.”

This was literally assault on a disabled person in broad daylight. And the best discipline the cops can muster is recommending a policy on how best to “transport” a disabled person. The two cops who committed the crime on tape haven’t missed a minute of work.

Instead the authoritative narrative gets regurgitated into the press as a newsworthy item with no critical thought from the report attached.

The masses, shrug, and move on with their day until we can do this all over again the next time the cops inevitably exercise their monopoly on violence. Meanwhile the inevitable civil rights settlement will come out of the same fund as parks and schools.

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