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Leaders break ground for new Pratt County Public Safety Center Fran Brownell Pratt Tribune After months of debate, discussion and deliberation, ground was broken Monday, December 7, for the new $6.3 million Pratt County Public Safety Center at NE 20th Avenue and U.S. Route 54. Principal funding for the new facility is wind-farm revenue, $1.5 million annually. Pratt County Commissioner Glenna Borho, who was appointed project liaison for the project for the county, opened the groundbreaking ceremony with a moment of silence to honor U.S. Troops stationed at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii who perished or ...

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 the Aug. 15 encounter. Womack said in a statement that he hadn't been speeding nor was he under the in...

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...

Don't show me this message again✕ Lionel Womack at home in Kansas City, Kansas (AP) A former police detective from Kansas has filed an excessive force lawsuit alleging that he sustained serious injuries when a Kiowa County Sheriff's Deputy intentionally drove over him. Lionel Womack said in a statement that he had not been speeding nor was he under the influence when he was pulled over in a traffic stop by Jeremy Rodriguez. Mr Womack, who is Black, says despite this, and even though his driver's licence, insurance, and vehicle registration were up to date, he panicked and fled. A graphic d...

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 the Aug. 15 encounter. Womack said in a statement that he hadn't been speeding nor was he under the in...