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Newly Released DashCam Footage Shows Kansas Deputy Hitting Fleeing Man With Car "It was a fight or flight moment and I was going to live," Lionel Womack said. December 19, 2020 at 6:56 pm A Kansas deputy is facing a lawsuit for excessive use of force after driving into a Black man who was running shirtless across a field fleeing a traffic stop. The incident, caught on an officer's dashcam, happened on Aug. 15 when Kiowa County Sheriff's Deputy Jeremy Rodriguez chased 35-year-old Lionel Womack, who is a former police officer. According to the Associated Press, Womack said multiple officer...

BELLE PLAINE — 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, Kan. — 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 the Aug. 15 encounter. Womack said in a statement that he hadn't been speeding nor was he under the influence of a...

December 18, 2020 Former police detective Lionel Womack has filed an excessive force lawsuit against sheriff's deputy Jeremy Rodriguez of Kiowa County, Kansas. SHOW TRANSCRIPT What looks like a scene from "Get Out" is former police detective Lionel Womack's disturbing reality and the center of an excessive force lawsuit against Sheriff's Deputy Jeremy Rodriguez of Kiowa County, Kansas. I rewatched it four times, just trying to get some sort of understanding as to why that officer felt justified in using deadly force. Womack's wife and police officer with the Kansas City, Kansas, police depart...

Disturbing video shows deputy "intentionally" running over Black man, lawsuit claims December 18, 2020 / 1:50 PM / CBS/AP Video shows deputy mow down man with truck 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 an excessive-force lawsuit filed Thursday that he sustained serious injuries when Kiowa County Sheriff's Deputy Jeremy Ro...

A Black former police detective filed an excessive force lawsuit in federal court against a rural Kansas sheriff’s department on Thursday, alleging he was intentionally run over by a patrol truck after fleeing a traffic stop in August. The suit comes as dashcam footage capturing the incident was released. Lionel Womack, a 35-year-old former police detective from Kansas City, Kansas, claims he suffered significant injuries when Kiowa County Deputy Jeremy Rodriguez ran over him with a patrol truck as he was fleeing on foot from a traffic stop on Aug. 15. Womack said that when he was pulled...