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<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#4f3f44"><strong><em> &#8220;Both officers are white and the victim is Black.&#8221; <br>&#8220;These officers escalated a personal matter that should have been a traffic stop at worse into a Rocky Horror beating&#8221;</em> &#8211; Dallas County DA, Michael Jackson </strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#4f3f44"><strong>Two white cops are charged with assault for tasing, beating up and threatening to a kill a black man because he got in a road rage dispute with one of their wives </strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#4f3f44"><strong>Selma Police officer Matthew Blaine Till and Dallas County sheriff’s deputy John Nicholas Taccone were charged on Tuesday for an April assault</strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#4f3f44"><strong>On April 30 the two cops brutally beat down a black man who had gotten into a road rage incident with Till&#8217;s wife</strong> </h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#4f3f44"><strong>The officers arrived to the scene, tried to arrest the man, and a struggle ensued</strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#4f3f44"><strong>Till allegedly pulled out a gun and told the victim that he was &#8216;going to kill him&#8217;</strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#4f3f44"><strong><strong>Both men were charged Tuesday with felony second-degree assault, unlawful imprisonment and obstructing governmental operations </strong></strong> </h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#4f3f44"><strong>Till earlier pled guilty to an attempt to hinder, delay or prevent the communication of the possible commission of a federal civil rights violation </strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#4f3f44"><strong>Till who was fired, was give a life time ban working in law enforcement, and faces 20 years in prison at sentencing, scheduled for Oct 28</strong> </h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#4f3f44"><strong>Sentencing date has not been set for Taconne, but he is no longer with the sheriff&#8217;s office</strong></h2>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Mathew-Blaine-Till-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-355683" width="563" height="766"/><figcaption><strong>Selma Police officer Matthew Blaine Till [photo], along with another white police friend of his, were charged Tuesday with felony assault charges for assaulting a black man who got into a road rage incident with his s wife, on April 30</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>Two white Alabama police officers have been charged with assault for beating a black man and threatening to kill him after he got into a road rage incident with one of their wives. ;<br>Selma Police officer Matthew Blaine Till and ;Dallas County sheriff’s deputy John Nicholas Taccone were hit with felony assault charges on Tuesday.<br>On April 30 Till&#8217;s wife got into a road rage incident and called her husband to tell him about her squabble with a &#8216;black guy in a red Charger&#8217;, according to court documents.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/John-Nicholas-Taccone-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-355681" width="578" height="783"/><figcaption><strong>Dallas County sheriff’s deputy John Nicholas Taccone [photo] was similarly hit with felony assault charges on Tuesday for assaulting the black man who got into a road rage incident with Till&#8217;s wife</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p> Till then called Taccone, both of whom were on duty and in uniform at the time, and they responded to the scene. When they arrived, the victim was exiting a parking lot and they stopped him and ordered him out of the vehicle.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Exxon-gas-station-in-Selma-where-Mathew-Till-and-John-Taccone-assauted-a-black-man-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-355694" width="806" height="425"/><figcaption><strong>Exxon gas station in Selma where officers Mathew Till and John Taccone assaulted a black man. After Till and Taccone arrived at the scene, a struggle ensued ;during which Till told the victim he was &#8216;going to kill him&#8217;</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>The two officers arrived to the scene ;near an Exxon gas station at the 2700 block of Highway 80 West in Selma and found the driver exiting a parking lot. They stopped him and ordered him out of his vehicle a short time later. ;<br>Officer Till placed one handcuff on the victim but was unable to get the second one one him and a physical struggle ensued, where the officers struck ;his head and face in a brutal beat down, ;according to ;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href="https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2020/09/2-alabama-police-officers-charged-with-felony-assault-in-brutal-beating.html">AL.com</a>. ;<br>In the 90-second confrontation, Till allegedly pulled out a gun and told the victim that he was &#8216;going to kill him&#8217;. ; ;<br><br></p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Michael-Jackson-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-355696" width="644" height="484"/><figcaption>Dallas County DA, Michael Jackson, announced Wednesday that both officers were charged with felony second-degree assault, unlawful imprisonment and obstructing governmental operations</figcaption></figure>



<p>&#8216;They Tased him multiple times, threw him to the ground and were punching and kicking him.<br>&#8216;It was a brutal beating. All this was happening while the victim was repeatedly asking the officers &#8220;What did I do?&#8221;&#8216;  ;Dallas County District Attorney Michael Jackson said announcing the charges on Wednesday. ; ;<br>Jackson pointed out that both cops were white and their victim black. ;<br>The unidentified black man eventually got into his car and fled, but crashed.<br>He was then transported to a holding cell at the city&#8217;s police department where federal agents interviewed him about weapons that were found inside his car, court documents said.<br>&#8216;These officers escalated a personal matter that should have been a traffic stop at worse into a Rocky Horror beating,&#8217; Jackson said.<br></p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Michael-Jackson-3.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-355702" width="719" height="479"/><figcaption>These officers escalated a personal matter that should have been a traffic stop at worse into a Rocky Horror beating,&#8217; Jackson [center], said at the press conference on Wednesday</figcaption></figure>



<p>&#8216;Public officials are held to a higher standard,&#8217; Jackson said, according to the <a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href="https://www.selmatimesjournal.com/2020/09/30/two-former-dallas-county-law-enforcement-officers-indicted/">Selma Times-Journal</a>. &#8216;It was a bullying situation. The badge is a symbol of integrity and protection,&#8217; said DA Jackson while announcing that men were charged with felony second-degree assault, unlawful imprisonment and obstructing governmental operations.<br>Till was fired, and Taccone is no longer employed with the sheriff&#8217;s office, according to the prosecutor.<br>Till pled guilty on Sept. 25 in U.S. Federal Court and admitted he gave those instructions with the intent to hinder, delay or prevent the communication to a federal law enforcement officer of information relating to the possible commission of a federal civil rights violation.<br>According to court documents Mathew Till, in part, sent a text to Taconne stating: “The indictments are coming for us. We need to get on the same page and use the same attorney. I don’t care what they threaten you with. If we don’t fight this together we are both going to be getting in trouble.”<br>As part of his plea agreement, Till will no longer be able to work in local, municipal, state or federal law enforcement, corrections officer or private security guard.<br>Federal District Judge Jeffrey U. Beaverstock has set Till’s sentencing for Dec. 28. where he faces up to 20 years in prison.<br>A sentencing date has not been set for Taconne.<br></p>

Two white Alabama police officers are fired and charged with assault after brutal beat down and tasing of black man, because he got in a road rage dispute with one of their wives
