JACKSONVILLE, FL- If you heard about a case where there was an allegation of excessive force by police and the person alleging the excessive force were being represented by Ben “The Chump” Crump, it wouldn’t be too hard to figure out the respective races of the police officer and the person alleging excessive force. Thus, we find ourselves in familiar territory where Crump has ridden in on his trusty steed to rail against the “evils” of “white supremacist” cops.
There is a famous routine by black comic Chris Rock instructing people on “how not to get your ass kicked by the police.” Simple tips include, if you are pulled over for any reason, “shut the f*ck up,” and “don’t ride with a mad woman.” In the case of a woman in Jacksonville, Florida, she would have been smart to obey the above two Chris Rock commandments, although there is some disagreement on whether she truly got her “ass kicked.” .
In a recent incident in Jacksonville, Tiara Young, 34, was pulled over because the tail lights on her vehicle were not lit. Young was making a delivery for DoorDash when she was pulled over by Officer B. M. Magyar of the Jacksonville County Sheriff’s Office.
During the course of the stop, Young appeared to become increasingly combative in her tone and demeanor when the officer asked her for her identification. Young rolled her window down about an inch or so, with Magyar asking her to roll the window down further, which she refused to comply with. Had she merely followed the officer's instructions, the outcome would have been far different. Instead, Young escalated the incident.
Young asked Magyar why she had been pulled over, and he explained it was for failure to have her lights lit. According to News 4 Jax, Young turned on her lights and just stared at Magyar.
Magyar again asked her to roll the window all the way down, and Young belligerently told him she didn’t “need to.” Magyar again asked her to produce her license, and she asked “why,” yet continued searching through multiple handbags but was unable to produce it. Magyar then asked her to step out of the car, which Young did.
After asking for her date of birth numerous times, simple information which Young refused to provide, Magyar told her to put her hands behind her back, at which point she began to violently resist arrest. During the course of the struggle, Young allegedly sustained a swollen eye and claims some of her hair was pulled out.
This brings us back to a simple premise. Had Young simply done what was asked, been cooperative, and not incited the incident, she likely would have gotten off with a traffic ticket for the tail light violation and perhaps for not carrying her license. Instead, she found herself being injured (the exact means is unknown until the body camera footage is released, which the JCSO has promised to do) and of course the first thing she did was run to Crump.
Crump has made his career out of being a race-baiting, ambulance-chasing, television camera-happy demagog who likes to engage in the histrionics of accusing every police officer who arrests a black person of racism, sometimes even when the police officer is black. The facts do not matter to Crump. If he can paint the cops as a bunch of racist storm troopers, it doesn’t matter what the truth is.
In the case of this particular incident, the Jacksonville County Sheriff’s Office has conducted an internal affairs probe of the arrest and the circumstances surrounding the incident and determined the officer followed department policy.
Of course, the facts don’t matter to Crump. If he can get ten seconds of air time bloviating about “systemic police racism” whether it exists or not, it just gets his face out there waiting for the next “excessive force” fairy tale to come out. And he’ll be there like the caped crusader, waiting to swoop in to fight those “evvvillll” cops to fight for truth, justice, and more money in his bank account.
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