Home Life Style Page, 9 Mount Vernon’s Hometown Newspaper • A Connection Newspaper June 11, 2020 FCPD Officer Charged with Assault Against Community Member Colonel Edwin C. Roessler Jr., Fairfax County Police Chief: ‘These acts are unacceptable.’ By Mercia Hobson ney and Jeff McKay, chairman of The Gazette the Fairfax County Board of Su- pervisors updated the community he body-worn cam- on the investigation regarding the era video I am re- inappropriate use of force and the “ leasing shows a Fair- deployment of the taser that oc- Tfax County police curred in a Mount Vernon neigh- officer deploying force in violation borhood. of our use of force policies … They Descano verified that the Com- are criminal acts which violate our monwealth had filed three differ- oath of office, and they ignore the ent charges of assault and battery sanctity of human life,” said Colo- A Fairfax County Police Officer against Officer Timberlake, and as nel Edwin C. Roessler Jr., Fairfax deploys an electronic control a result, he faced up to 36 months County Police Chief the day after weapon, shooting an African in incarceration. one of his officers deployed an American male after other coun- “First, we will seek justice in this “electronic control weapon,” mul- ty officers and paramedics had case … Second, I cannot overstate tiple times on an African American been working on getting him the value and role that body-worn male who did not appear to be a into an ambulance. cameras have played in our inves- threat. In a released video, the of- tigation into this matter … and ficer is shown using the weapon lastly, this county, Fairfax County is Steve T. Descano, numerous times and in one in- our home, and we hold ourselves Fairfax County Com- stance with his knees on the man’s to a much higher standard than monwealth Attorney back, the officer tases the man’s what we see in this video … We neck. The victim calls out, “I can’t will not tolerate this.” breathe.” The Mount Vernon police district Fairfax County Police Officer of the Fairfax County Office of the cers attempted to de-escalate the ated criminal and administrative has body worn cameras because it First Class Tyler Timberlake, as- Commonwealth’s Attorney, situation working with paramedics investigations. was part of a pilot study, but the signed to the Mount Vernon Dis- According to police, officers to help get the man into an ambu- The day after the incident, Board of Supervisors recently de- trict Station for eight years, was responded to a call for service lance, PFC Timberlake arrived and shortly before 11:30 p.m., Roessler funded plans to expand the body charged with three counts of mis- around 1:30 p.m. Friday, June 5, used unacceptable force. Based hosted a press conference. He worn cameras to the rest of the demeanor assault and battery, on involving a man in crisis wander- on this action, Colonel Edwin C. along with Steve T. Descano, Fair- Saturday, June 6, at the direction ing in the roadway. As other offi- Roessler Jr., Chief of Police, initi- fax County Commonwealth Attor- See FCPD Officer, Page 8 Hundreds Come Out to Fight Racism and Police Brutality Mount Vernon “We are looking for more account- Mount Vernon resident Dan Photo by Mike Salmon/The Connection by Mike Salmon/The Photo ability from the police depart- Moon saw the Gum Springs inci- ment,” Kincannon said. dent on the news, so he was there was ground zero A few weeks ago, police brutality with that on his mind. “Keep the lead to the death of George Floyd pressure on to take action,” he for the latest in- in Minneapolis, which sparked said. protests across the country. There were a few signs address- cident involving But Friday afternoon there was a ing that incident as well, including taser incident in Gum Springs that one that said “Fire and Arrest Tim- Fairfax County had captured the marchers atten- berlake Now,” referring to Police tion. “The community is upset,” Officer First Class (PFC) Tyler Tim- Police. Kincannon said, who called it an berlake who arrested for assault. “unprovoked overreaction.” See Hundreds Come, Page 6 By Mike Salmon The Gazette 6/12/20 Requested in home in Requested material undreds of peaceful pro- Time-sensitive testers gathered at the Postmaster: The marchers were on target with the messages. 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