“I just want to accept responsibility for everything I did and say that I apologize and I just want to do better,” Washington told Montgomery County Common Pleas Court Judge Mary Wiseman.
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Dayton police cruiser cam obtained by this news organization showed as Taser was used July 12 on Washington, who was later struck at least two dozen times by at least four officers. The Dayton Daily news has requested the internal affairs report regarding officers’ use of force.
Washington was being detained but not in handcuffs in the back of a cruiser as officers searched a car Washington had been operating on Harriet Street.
Police had separated he and a woman who had been in a car nearby; records indicate police were sent to the scene when callers reported a couple was fighting in a vehicle.
The obstructing official business charged stemmed from a 9½-hour SWAT standoff on Pontview Avenue on Aug. 21, 2018.
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The U.S. Marshals Service Southern Ohio Fugitive Apprehension Strike Team Task Force members arrived at a house to arrest Washington on a felony warrant. Washington reportedly barricaded himself in an upstairs room. A SWAT team later found him hiding in an attic and took Washington into custody.
The domestic violence charge stemmed from an incident during which a woman suffered a broken nose, said Washington’s attorney, Carl Goraleski.
Goraleski said during one of his client’s stays in the Montgomery County Jail, Washington was forced to sleep on a top bunk on the fourth floor.
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Goraleski said Washington suffered a crushed pelvis in August 2017. Washington is one of several plaintiffs in a jail mistreatment and overcrowding lawsuit filed in Dayton’s U.S. District Court.
“The time that he spent locked up was particularly hard on him given the physical limitations he’s had since the injury in 2017,” Goraleski said Tuesday, adding he thought probation would have been appropriate.
“There’s been some good things that have come out of this situation: I think an appreciation on his behalf of how much he means to his family, what he can do for his family and living life in a way that doesn’t involve people with badges and guns.”
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