Unequal Justice, Again...Being Black In America Ain't Easy!!
Jury returns split verdict in Burks case: Watch dash cam video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDUzozPEEsU
By Steve Zucker News-Review Staff WriterFriday, January 25, 2008 9:52 AM EST
According to testimony and a tape from a police cruiser video camera, Petoskey officer Todd Troxel attempted to make a traffic stop on a van driven by Burks wife Jacqueline near the U.S. 31/131 intersection. Reggie Burks testified that his wife was driving him to the hospital after he was injured in a fall. Jacqueline Burks did not pull over for Troxel until reaching the hospital at which time a verbal confrontation ensued between Troxel and Jacqueline Burks. While Jacqueline and Troxel were arguing, Reggie Burks exited the vehicle and moments later broke his wooden cane over Troxel's head.
An Emmet County Circuit Court jury returned a split verdict on Jan. 24 for Reggie Bernard Burks Sr., 47, a former Boyne Falls man who was facing a pair of criminal charges for breaking his cane over the head of a Petoskey police officer during a traffic stop. An Emmet County Circuit Court jury has returned a split verdict for a former Boyne Falls man who was facing a pair of criminal charges for breaking his cane over the head of a Petoskey police officer during a traffic stop.
Following about two-and-a-half hours of deliberation Thursday, the eight-woman, four-man jury found Reggie Bernard Burks Sr., 47 not guilty on a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon, a four-year felony and guilty on a charge of resisting and obstructing police, a two year felony. The second verdict was the less-serious of two options the jury had for the resisting and obstructing charge. The more serious option was resisting and obstructing causing injury, a four-year charge.
{ Why was the man found guilty again and of what? Wasn't he the one that needed the emergency attention? I wonder if he got it (emergency care) in jail?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDUzozPEEsU
By Steve Zucker News-Review Staff WriterFriday, January 25, 2008 9:52 AM EST
According to testimony and a tape from a police cruiser video camera, Petoskey officer Todd Troxel attempted to make a traffic stop on a van driven by Burks wife Jacqueline near the U.S. 31/131 intersection. Reggie Burks testified that his wife was driving him to the hospital after he was injured in a fall. Jacqueline Burks did not pull over for Troxel until reaching the hospital at which time a verbal confrontation ensued between Troxel and Jacqueline Burks. While Jacqueline and Troxel were arguing, Reggie Burks exited the vehicle and moments later broke his wooden cane over Troxel's head.
An Emmet County Circuit Court jury returned a split verdict on Jan. 24 for Reggie Bernard Burks Sr., 47, a former Boyne Falls man who was facing a pair of criminal charges for breaking his cane over the head of a Petoskey police officer during a traffic stop. An Emmet County Circuit Court jury has returned a split verdict for a former Boyne Falls man who was facing a pair of criminal charges for breaking his cane over the head of a Petoskey police officer during a traffic stop.
Following about two-and-a-half hours of deliberation Thursday, the eight-woman, four-man jury found Reggie Bernard Burks Sr., 47 not guilty on a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon, a four-year felony and guilty on a charge of resisting and obstructing police, a two year felony. The second verdict was the less-serious of two options the jury had for the resisting and obstructing charge. The more serious option was resisting and obstructing causing injury, a four-year charge.
{ Why was the man found guilty again and of what? Wasn't he the one that needed the emergency attention? I wonder if he got it (emergency care) in jail?
I think the man was justified for breaking his cane over the ignorant policeman's head especially for putting his hands on another man's wife. The policeman should have listened and allowed the lady to get help from inside. I've worked the ER and people would pull up with gunshot victims in tow and all sorts of other scenarios. Who has time to think of 911 when you're upset and scared? The policeman was an ignorant butte hole. Had the people been of another persuasion... I'm sure he would have listened better.