Officer Takes Down Mother Protecting Her Children From Violent Offender
A Clayton County mother is calling for justice after a police officer broke through the door, as she tried to keep a man convicted of abuse away from her children.
Khanay Yancey said she filed a lawsuit in federal court because she could not get justice on her own. She wants the officer to be held accountable. Furthermore, she is using his bodycam footage as evidence in the case.
“I was in total disbelief, I was shocked,” she said. “Once the door came crashing in, he just grabbed me, he was manhandling me, and I am screaming like, ‘Why are you here, why are you doing this?'”
Tillman then tries to handcuff Yancey. He then uses his leg to sweep her legs from under her. She falls to the ground. All this happens as her son watches. “Hey, sir. My mom got health problems, sir,” the son says to the officer. “I sure do,” Yancey says.
Yancey was at home in Clayton County in 2019 when she said her friend’s ex-boyfriend showed up.
She said he claimed he had left items inside and called 911 to try and get in to get them back.
However, Yancey said the man had been arrested for domestic violence against her friend and did not want to let him in.
Bodycam footage shows Officer George Tillman responded and demanded Yancey allow the man inside.
The video shows her refusing and closing the door. Then, Officer Tillman breaks the door down and takes her to the ground.
“I was in total disbelief, I was shocked,” she said. “Once the door came crashing in, he just grabbed me, he was manhandling me, and I am screaming like, ‘Why are you here, why are you doing this?'”
Tillman then tries to handcuff Yancey. He then uses his leg to sweep her legs from under her. She falls to the ground. All this happens as her son watches. “Hey, sir. My mom got health problems, sir,” the son says to the officer. “I sure do,” Yancey says.
“Everyone in Clayton County knows that this officer violated the law, he violated their policies, he violated the 4th amendment, and everyone to have looked at this has said so. And yet, we are here, many years later, still trying to get accountability from that officer to this day,” Attorney Tanya Miller said.
She said the Clayton County Police Department has not offered to settle with Yancey, even though the department’s internal documents show an oversight board voted to fire the officer before reversing its decision.
“You cannot hire these officers to police, send them into communities, and then when they do an awful, terrible job, pretend that it’s not your responsibility. So that’s what accountability looks like,” Miller said.
In testimony recorded about the lawsuit, Officer Tillman said he broke the door broke through the door because he was scared for his life that day.
Yancey said she was the one who was afraid.
“This could happen to any citizen. If you’re in your own home, the sanctity of your own home, trying to protect yourself and your children, this should happen to no one,” Yancey said.