Tuesday, February 23, 2021

Deputy Beats Man With Shovel

Hinds County Deputy Brady Hightower Butler attempted to shovel his way out of a problem with a suspect last week.   

 

Credit to yes, The Cipher for posting the video. 

 Mr. Hightower is now separated from the Hinds County Sheriff's Department. 

 Kingfish note: This is not the first time Hightower committed acts of violence in public. JJ reported on March 17, 2016:



The fight against domestic violence in Mississippi suffered a blow this week as a simple assault domestic violence charge was dismissed against  former JPD Deputy Chief Brady Hightower.  Ridgeland police arrested Hightower in January in a bank parking lot as he (allegedly) assaulted a female.

 The victim refused to testify in court and exercised her Fifth Amendment rights. The victim also refused to affirm a written statement she gave police when Hightower was arrested.  Ridgeland Municipal Court Judge Bob Camp dismissed the charges upon a request to do so by Hightower attorney Rocky Wilkins.

JJ obtained a copy of the video through a public records request.  The video posted below consists of video recordings taken from three different security cameras.

:21 Hightower chases victim across the parking lot.
1:32 A customer pulls up but immediately backs out and leaves.  Doesn't want any part of this.
2:27 Ridgeland PD arrive
3:07. Different camera.  Victim runs from Hightower.
3:33 He grabs her.  They scuffle right in front of the camera.  He is in JPD uniform.
4:40 Different angle of customer pulling into drive-thru but immediately leaving.
7:02 Different camera.  Hightower grabs victim and continues to wrestle with her.  It appears that he puts her in a headlock or chokehold at one point although his back is to the camera.









Posted by Kingfish at 10:04 AM

17 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ice Capades Jackson style.

February 23, 2021 at 10:35 AM
Anonymous said...

Vance did the right thing. Zero tolerance, decisive. Was this unacceptable? Hell yes. But those who want to wholesale neutralize and/or abolish law enforcement departments across this country in response won't be pleased with the citizen summary justice that results. The bad guys didn't prevail in the Wild West, or anywhere else in the USofA for that matter.

February 23, 2021 at 11:28 AM
Anonymous said...

Third world country.

February 23, 2021 at 11:35 AM
Anonymous said...

Internal affairs now has the dirt on him.

February 23, 2021 at 11:39 AM
Bee said...

If this is how Mr. Hightower acts in public, imagine how he acts behind closed doors. It’s no wonder his girlfriend is afraid to testify against him. He doesn’t need to be on the police force much less be around women.

February 23, 2021 at 11:46 AM
Anonymous said...

gives new meaning of wood shampoo.

February 23, 2021 at 11:56 AM
Anonymous said...

I see "Hightower" and immediately think of Bubba Smith in Police Academy.

February 23, 2021 at 12:23 PM
Anonymous said...

The laughing people taking the video reflects a general attitude of lack of awareness for how dangerous things can get quickly - and swinging a shovel at someone is cause for serious criminal charges being filed.

Trying to understand the mindset that physical altercations are funny . . .

February 23, 2021 at 12:42 PM
Anonymous said...

And all this time, I thought the refrain was "kicked in the head by the Jackson police."

February 23, 2021 at 1:22 PM
Anonymous said...

11:28, I beg to differ. They seem to be doing very well in Washington DC.

February 23, 2021 at 2:24 PM
Anonymous said...

Assaulting with a shovel justifies deady force by the recipient.

February 23, 2021 at 2:44 PM
Anonymous said...

Just to be clear: Has he been fired from HSO??

February 23, 2021 at 2:48 PM
Anonymous said...

" Ice Capades Jackson style."

Exactly !

More entertaining than anything "Disney on Ice" ever did back when they used to come to that spectacular
Mississippi Coliseum on High Street.

February 23, 2021 at 4:33 PM
Anonymous said...

Just another one of those shovel ready jobs in Jackson. You have to wonder where they find vermin like this so they can strap a gun on them. Maybe Jackson could just issue shovels to law enforcement.

February 23, 2021 at 5:10 PM
Anonymous said...

Thankfully the deputy was black.

February 24, 2021 at 8:19 AM
Yard And Garden Tools For 400 said...

The only time LEO should git after a man with a shelvul is if that man takes LEOs gun and is about to use it. Then they should use that same shelvul to plant the man.

February 24, 2021 at 8:27 AM
Anonymous said...

When shovels are outlawed, only outlaws will have them.

February 25, 2021 at 10:11 AM

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