Motorcyclist killed
after chase, Cop not charged!
August 3, 2001
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Gerald Benjamin Abney, Jr, known to his friends as Tiny
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The Horse Back Street Choppers - 9/7/01
Google Groups - Motorcyclist killed after chase, Cop not charged! 8/30/01
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Written to CHRIS HELMS, Staff Writer News & Record
- August 27, 2001
Chris,
Please quit publishing the speculation regarding whether Tiny Abney’s motorcycle fell
down before Deputy Coe ran over him. The eyewitness Richard Hunt said he SAW the deputy
hit Tiny with the patrol car. State Trooper Mike Ivey returned to the scene of the crime
with Richard Hunt on Monday, August 6th, but discredited the eyewitness account as
“not being possible because of the short distance from 64” that the fatality
occurred.
The fact is that TINY IS DEAD because Deputy Coe ran over him! Nothing that Tiny
did in the past can change that. All the other ‘facts’ came to light AFTER HE
WAS KILLED BY DEPUTY COE! Tiny might not have been an angel, but he was entitled to
the same justice as everyone else in this country. The report goes on to say that Tiny was
impaired by Methamphetamine and was likely to have impaired judgment or act violently. My
question is: What impaired Deputy Coe’s capacity to recognize the potentially lethal
mix of a 4000# patrol car and a 700# motorcycle? Who acted violently? Was it Tiny, who
failed to stop for a blue light and siren after being assaulted with a deadly weapon, or
Deputy Coe who assaulted him with the taxpayer’s patrol car? Is this an example of
how well Randolph County trains it’s Deputies and IS THIS WHAT WE CAN EXPECT FROM
THEM IN THE EVENT THAT OTHERS PASS ON A DOUBLE YELLOW LINE?
Rodney Coe should be fired for killing Tiny and charged with homicide with a motor
vehicle.
Citizens unite! This could happen to you next for any reason that Deputy Coe decides is
probable cause. THINK ABOUT IT. The report also says that the vehicles gave each other
“a glancing blow” at the intersection of Caraway Mountain Rd. and Green Farm Rd.
Eyewitnesses said that Deputy Coe hit the motorcycle with the front of the patrol car and
could have ended the ‘chase’ by just pulling up 3 more feet to block Tiny on the
shoulder of the road. One witness said that it was as if Coe was playing cat and mouse
with Tiny and Coe was the cat! If you think about it, that story puts Coe in the wrong
lane trying to pass Tiny in an intersection while making a left hand turn!! This is
totally irresponsible behavior for a Sheriff’s Deputy.
District Attorney Garland N. Yates has stated that this matter is closed. I assure you
that it is not.
Mark Infield |
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