Introduction
In
2017, approximately 1189 people were killed by police in this
country, an average of just over 3 people killed every day by the
very men & women society has entrusted to serve and protect them.
On April 13th, 2017, 33 y/o Michael Dial became the next
victim of this deadly & increasingly violent American Police
State, when the unarmed man was shot to death on the side of the road
by White County deputies. And while 'law enforcement' officers and
their supporters across the country continue their attempt to justify
& defend these violent police forces, this story illustrates the
ugly truth that cops in this country no longer serve and protect the
people, but rather the State who hires them & its property.
Michael Dial and wife Robyn
The Story
This
is not a new story, but the information caught on police video &
audio recordings which was only recently released to the public via
News Channel 5 is, and is rightfully outraging the public. This
story begins a few hours earlier in neighboring Dekalb County,
Tennessee, where officers attempted to stop Michael
Dial for allegedly driving with a suspended license, an absolutely
victim-less 'crime'. According to his wife Robyn, Michael didn't stop
because he was scared - “I know him enough to know that,” she
told investigators.
Michael
was driving a 1976 pickup with a fully loaded trailer, and a
SLOW-SPEED chase ensued, at an average of 30-40mph, possibly once
reaching 50mph according to Dekalb deputies who pursued him, who described the pursuit as more like a funeral procession than a
police chase. Upon reaching the Dekalb/White County line, Dekalb
deputies backed off and White County officers took over the chase. Tennessee State police and Sparta City police also got involved. For several minutes, dash-cam footage shows police cars continually
attempting to run the truck off the road, with several patrol cars
ramming the truck & trailer multiple times with no success at
stopping it. Dial's truck was pushed into both the median and the
shoulder several times, only to re-emerge onto the highway surrounded
by cop cars each time. Only minutes before the pursuit ended, a
White County dispatcher relayed the sheriff's chilling orders to all
those on the scene of the chase:
“Per
59 (the sheriff) take him out by any means necessary, including
deadly force.” And a few seconds later, again: “Per 59 (the
sheriff) use deadly force if necessary, take this subject out by any
force necessary.”
Reserve
deputy Adam West had gotten involved in the chase in his personal
pickup truck, whose body-cam footage shows him drawing his handgun
after receiving the memo. Adam was following the chase, slightly
behind the patrol cars which were in direct contact with the truck &
trailer. At the same time and on the other end of the county, not
physically involved in the chase, sheriff Oddie Shoupe was apparently
not only giving the orders to kill Dial, but was bemoaning the fact
he wasn't there to do it himself or at least enjoy the action.
Arriving on scene shortly after the shooting, the sheriff recounts
the chase from his perspective, apparently completely unaware that a
deputy's body-cam was recording every word.
“I
said take him out, damn I don't give a shit,” the sheriff said.
“They said we're ramming him, I said don't ram him, shoot him. F*ck that shit, I ain't gonna tear my cars up, but we got two cars
tore up again.” And, as if putting a kill-order out on an unarmed
man in order to protect state property isn't bad enough, it gets
worse. “But we got plenty of video, and I gave the order to take
him out,” the sheriff can be heard saying over the phone a few
minutes later, “because he was going to kill someone if we didn't,”
– this justification a baseless lie. Having finished his phone call,
the sheriff continues speaking to an officer: “Let me tell you
something, if they don't think I'll give the damn order to kill that
motherf*cker, they full of shit. [laughter] Take him out, I'm on the
damn end wrong end of the county over here.” Then, after
recollecting how he had gone “about 90 [mph]” to get to the scene
as quickly as possible, comes the icing on the cake from this sick
killer: “I love this shit, god I tell you what,
I thrive on this,” sheriff Shoupe said.
Back
to the action the sheriff wished he wasn't missing, a patrol car is
able to again push Michael's truck and trailer into the median, but
this time another cop immediately rams the rear-end of the truck,
sending it across both lanes of the road into an embankment, where it
finally came to a stop in some trees. At the exact moment of this
final ramming, the radio dispatcher's voice can be heard relaying
sheriff Shoupe's kill-order for the last time:
“County
8, Per 59 (the sheriff) do not ram the subject, you need to get out
and use your shotgun to end this pursuit.”
The
second Michael Dial's truck and trailer are pushed off of the highway into an embankment, deputy Adam West fires two rounds out the side
of his window in Dial's direction before quickly exiting his truck
and shooting off 8 more rounds at the victim's truck as he runs
towards it. After re-loading his weapon and possibly firing off one
last shot, Adam West reaches the now motionless truck and can be heard
yelling, “GET ON THE GROUND,” to the unarmed victim who is
already dead from a bullet to his head. Sparta police officer Charlie
Simms also opened fire when the truck flew off the roadway, but deputy Adam West is believed to be the
killer, and looked emotionally shaken up when the sheriff arrived at
the scene. The sheriff then consoles Adam, admitting it was he
himself who ordered the kill, so Adam doesn't need to feel bad about
it.
“Hey
Adam, yer good. You call your wife and tell her you're alright. You
don't have to worry about this. I made the decision,” the sheriff
said. “You don't have to worry about it, I took that away from
ya'll. You don't have to worry about nothin'. Everything's cool. You
done just exactly right,” the sheriff went on to say. “Hey, you
done the right thing. You kept somebody from getting killed...Call
your wife first, tell her everything's good. I made that decision,
you don't have to worry about nothin',” the sheriff said to the now
crying deputy.
But
deputy Adam does have to worry, because he has been rightfully named
on a federal lawsuit being brought against the White County Sheriff's
Department by the victim's wife, along with officer Charlie Simms and
sheriff Oppie Shoupe. And on top of that he must live with this for
the rest of his life, knowing he executed an unarmed man and made a
loving wife a widow, all because HE WAS JUST FOLLOWING ORDERS. Oh the
irony... The sheriff assured Adam that he did the right thing and
kept somebody from being killed that day, while urging him to call
his wife and tell her everything is alright... He said this to a
deputy who had just needlessly taken a life, and made that man's
loving wife a widow... Nothing is right about this picture...
White County sheriff Oppie Shoupe, MURDERER & proud of it...
The After Math
Nothing
is right about this story. Because if there was ANY true justice left
in the InJustice System of this country, the DA wouldn't have ruled
this premeditated MURDER as 'justified'. District Attorney General
Bryant Dunaway apparently didn't have access to the recording of the sheriff's “offensive comments” at the time of the decision. But
even now, with this recording having recently been made public, the
DA isn't changing his decision. Bryant Dunaway has since released an
official statement making it clear that even with the new evidence,
he will not be pressing charges.
"Regarding
the April 2017 officer-involved shooting incident in White County,
TN, which resulted in the tragic death of Mr. Michael Dial, I would
like to make absolutely clear that the District Attorney’s office
does not condone or support the behavior and comments of the White
County sheriff. The public’s outrage over the sheriff’s behavior
and the community’s sympathies for Mr. Dial’s family are shared
by this office.
The
decision not to bring charges against the responding officers was
based on an evaluation of the individual actions of Mr. Dial and the
individual actions of those officers under the circumstances in which
those officers found themselves. The sheriff was not present during
the pursuit; he did not make the offensive comments until well after
the conclusion of the pursuit.
Over
the course of a lengthy pursuit through two counties, Mr. Dial
repeatedly, willingly and directly endangered the lives of civilian
drivers and law enforcement officers.
A
complete review of the multiple pursuit videos show Mr. Dial’s
truck and trailer driving at times on the wrong side of the roadway
directly into oncoming traffic and forcing citizen drivers off the
road, proceeding from highways to city streets past schools and
businesses, and colliding with police vehicles, all the while
indicating no intent to stop.
In
the nearly 10 months that have elapsed since this incident, this
office has proactively shared information with the public, beginning
with our office petitioning the Chancery Court to authorize the
release of the TBI investigative files to be made available to the
public, and the distribution of a detailed news release on May 17,
2017."
This
cowardly statement never addresses the fact that at the point Michael
Dial was shot to death, the “lengthy pursuit” in which, according
to the statement, “Mr.
Dial repeatedly, willingly and directly endangered the lives of
civilian drivers and law enforcement officers,” had
already ENDED! NO LIVES were being directly endangered or threatened
by the UNARMED Michael Dial as he sat in his truck on the
side of the highway. If “the public's outrage over the sheriff's
behavior” was truly “shared by this office,” as the DA claims
here, then they would surely reverse their original decision not to
bring charges. And why is the decision not to bring charges only,
“against the responding officers,” and not also against the
sheriff himself who ORDERED THE KILL? How can you say, Mr. Dunaway,
that “the District Attorney's office does not condone or support
the behavior and comments of the White County sheriff,” and then
decide to not press charges against the sheriff, when his behavior
was to issue an unnecessary KILL-ORDER and his comments are evidence
of a premeditated MURDER?
When
the sheriff's comments include this one, “I said don't ram him,
SHOOT HIM...I ain't gonna tear my cars up,” it is clear evidence
the sheriff was intent on serving and protecting State property over
and above human life. The DA calls these “offensive comments,”
but these comments go way beyond offensive when they reveal the
sheriff's intent to have Michael Dial killed simply to protect the
County from automobile damage, and also contain multiple blatant
admissions to issuing a kill-order – evidence of a premeditated
murder. From the official statement which ignores the heart of the
matter, it is obvious District Attorney General Bryant Dunaway does
not care about justice or truth, but rather about damage control –
to serve and protect the State, just like sheriff Oddie Shoupe did
when he put the interests of the County's cars above a human life.
Sadly,
this is not that shocking because it has now become the norm in the
American Police State. Even still, it is outrageous that time and
time again, police officers get away with violent brutality and even
murder, despite their heinous crimes being caught on video and viewed by
prosecuting attorneys. Sadly, most people seem as though they could
care less about the current epidemic of police violence and the
widespread corruption & rampant lack of justice in the so-called
Justice System, until they or a loved one becomes a victim. Hopefully as more and more of these stories are made public, the apathy of the masses will begin to fade.
Lawsuits
brought against the State by the families of victims of police
violence should not be the ONLY hope of any semblance of justice, but
sadly this too has become normal. Michael Dial's wife Robyn has been
forced to sue the White County Sheriff's Department because the
government system in place in this country today is simply CRIMINAL.
I, as well as the rest of outraged America, certainly hope Robyn wins in court,
but it shouldn't have to come to this. No amount of money will bring
Michael Dial back from the dead, and no amount of money paid to
victims can right the wrongs of this corrupt system run by career
criminals. Only brave men and women standing up, speaking out and
peacefully resisting tyranny will truly make a positive difference for humanity.
Conclusion
Michael
Dial's only 'crime' was exercising his natural human right to travel,
despite having an expired or suspended government permission slip
(driver's license). When the police attempted to initiate a traffic
stop of Michael Dial, they were the ones with a monopoly of force
attempting to infringe on his right to travel. Likely scared, and
quite possibly aware of the criminal nature & violent disposition
of police in this country, Dial simply refused to be harassed (pulled
over), extorted (fined) and possibly kidnapped (arrested) & caged
(jailed) for traveling without government permission. Instead, he
ignored the road pirates and continued traveling on his way, and it
was the police who again initiated force against him when they began
sideswiping and ramming him. Lastly, in their final show of force,
they murdered an unarmed man whose disabled truck was already slowing to a stop on side of the road.
The
message the government is sending to the people is coming through loud and clear:
OBEY OR DIE. Nobody had to die that day, but they still did. As
Michael's wife said, if they had just followed him for ten more miles
his truck probably would have run out of gas. And don't these cops
have access to spike-strips? As it is, the story could still have
ended with Michael's arrest at the time his truck was disabled,
without needless bloodshed. Instead, deputy Adam West obeyed the
order given by his bloodthirsty sheriff, and murdered an unarmed man.
Now a family has been torn apart, a loving wife made a widow, and to
top it off, justice has been denied.
As
this story illustrates so perfectly, government employees don't serve
and protect We The People, but the State they work for, which is
nothing more than a for-profit corporate entity with a monopoly on
force. The violent gang of road pirates called police are nothing
more than the protection arm of this organized criminal syndicate
called government. Welcome to the American Police State, where, without the 'proper' government papers, you are subject to execution.
If you are outraged like I am regarding this story, feel free to leave your comments at the White County Sheriff's Department Google Review Page or the Sheriff's Facebook page. Or call, White County Sheriff's Department Phone: 931-836-2700 and dispatch: 931-738-7111.
Video/audio footage referenced in & related to this article, which isn't linked above can be found below.
If you are outraged like I am regarding this story, feel free to leave your comments at the White County Sheriff's Department Google Review Page or the Sheriff's Facebook page. Or call, White County Sheriff's Department Phone: 931-836-2700 and dispatch: 931-738-7111.
Video/audio footage referenced in & related to this article, which isn't linked above can be found below.
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