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Federal lawsuit: Kansas deputy purposely ran over Black man By ROXANA HEGEMANDecember 18, 2020 GMT BELLE PLAINE, Kan. (AP) — The dashcam video captured a horrific scene: a Kansas sheriff’s deputy in a patrol truck mowing down a Black man who was running, shirtless, across a field in the summer darkness after fleeing a traffic stop. Lionel Womack — a 35-year-old former police detective from Kansas City, Kansas — alleges in a excessive force lawsuit filed Thursday that he sustained serious injuries when Kiowa County Sheriff’s Deputy Jeremy Rodriguez intentionally drove over him during...

Pratt Tribune The Pratt County Sheriff's Department, EMS and Preston Fire, along with the Kansas Highway Patrol, responded to a semi rollover accident at 3:15 p.m. on Wednesday, December 23, northeast of Pratt on U.S. Highway 61 near 60th Avenue. The semi, pulling an empty grain trailer, may have been tossed over by wind gusts, which at that time were recorded up to 46 mph, according to the U.S. National Weather Service out of Dodge City. Snow flurries were also present at that time. "Pratt Regional Airport recorded 35 mph winds exactly at 3:15 p.m. but then also logged intermittent wind gust...

Pratt Lions Club released complete prize-winners list from 2020 raffle Pratt Tribune Pratt Lions Club President Andy Lee said more than $1,570 has been raised for vision care in Pratt County through the recent annual Christmas raffle, and a complete list of the prize donors, sponsors and winners is now available at the Pratt Tribune online. "We had tremendous support this year, even in light of the coronavirus pandemic," Lee said. "The amount raised this year ($1,573) was equal to last year's all-time raffle high." The Pratt Lions Club extends special thanks to Cathy's Closet on S. Main in P...

What's the problem here? Police attempted to pull him over, he refused and fled, driving down the dark road with lights off until his vehicle couldn't continue, then he flees on foot until an officer bumps him with his truck. This obviously mentally-impaired man is LUCKY he wasn't killed in the episode. His attorney is an asshole, looking for a financial payout. I suppose police were also supposed to wait for him to shoot and/or physically assault them before surrendering and letting him go on his way? NO ONE should be defending this man's actions. Some are trying to destroy this country.

By Bruce C.T. Wright, NewsOne A police officer intentionally drove over a Black driver who fled on foot from a traffic stop that involved multiple police departments in Kansas, according to a new lawsuit. Lionel Womack, a former police officer, filed the lawsuit Thursday and said that dashcam video from the encounter this past summer corroborates his allegations, the Associated Press reported. Womack, 35, whose lawsuit alleges he “sustained serious injuries to his back, pelvis and thigh as well as to his right knee, ankle and foot,” says there was no justification for him to be pulled ove...