HighlightsFamily of Shandle Riley to receive $100,000 settlement after lawsuit over forced ‘baptism’.Ex-cop Daniel Wilkey offered Riley to take part in the ritual to avoid arrest after finding traces of marijuana on her car.Riley’s lawsuit sought $11 million in punitive damages, claiming Wilkey groped and violated her rights.
Riley argued in her lawsuit that she was deprived of her rights and that the cop also took advantage of his position of power to intimidate her and grope her breasts, buttocks, and crotch, so she asked for $11 million in punitive damages.
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The woman, whodied in 2022from adrugoverdose, also explained that Daniel Wilkey seemed to have entered into a religious trance while performing a pat-down search, in which he “talked to God,” who seemingly ordered him to go through with the religious ritual.
Jacob Goforthfilmed the event and acted as a witness for the makeshift “ritual,” which saw Wilkey forcibly submerge the woman beneath cold waters during what the lawsuit recounts to have been a 10º Celsius night, after which she was left shivering and feeling “horribly violated.”
Both Wilkey and Goforth are in the middle of trials for their misconduct aslaw enforcementofficials, with the latter being accused of being an accomplice and not reporting his partner’s activities to his superiors.
Leading to his firing in 2019, the ex-cop accumulated more than 40 criminal charges during his career, including stalking and sexual abuse
This is far from being the first time the official is involved in cases of abuse against citizens. In July 2019, he got hit withanother lawsuit, this time for $17 million, after he hit and humiliated a man under suspicion ofdrug possession, culminating in him performing a public “anal cavity search,” with the entire event captured on camera.
The man, identified as James Mitchell, claims to have felt a “hard object” around the cop’s groin while being handcuffed and states to have felt “mental anguish, fear of death or grievous bodily harm, and humiliation.”
“Wilkey then began to grab James’ genitals. When James told Wilkey that James had an untreated and large hernia and that Wilkey’s actions were causing James pain,” the legal document argues. “Brewer and Wilkey jerked James’ arms high above his back, and slammed James face-down onto the hot engine hood, causing injury to James.”
Daniel Wilkey was fired on December 27, 2019, and he is considered ineligible for rehire. Despite the deplorable nature of thecop’s behavior, judges have sincedismisseda44-count indictmentagainst him.
“The worst perpetrators always seem to hide under the guise of religion,” says one commenter as others lament over the state of the United States police department
“This guy has no business being a police officer. He needs to be fired and charged for doing what he did to both the woman and man,” said one reader.
“This is America buddy. Police here do what they want and a certain brainwashed segment of the population says ‘I always support the police no matter what,’” replied one commenter.
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