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Former alderman Dorothy Tillman was arrested over the weekend in Alabama. She was charged with criminal tresspassing after refusing to leave an Montgomery hospital, according to the police. Tillman says the cops used excessive force and that she was brutalized.
Tillman, who was until last year the alderman of the 3rd ward, was in Montgomery for civil rights activist Johnnie Carr's funeral, and she decided to visit her elderly aunt who lives in the area. Tillman's aunt wasn't doing too well, so Tillman took her to the hospital but became concerned that she wasn't receiving decent care and wanted to transfer her. Tillman asked for her aunt's medical records, which is when stuff got ugly. Hospital staffers refused, Tillman refused to leave, and then security got involved. And then the Montgomery Police Department.
"They knocked me down to the ground," Tillman says. "They knocked my hat off. One of them put his knees on my spine and threatened to taser me." No one knocks off Tillman's hat! Montgomery Police deny any wrongdoing.
She spent under two hours in jail at which point a local minister posted her $300 bail. Her court date is March 31. [S-T, CBS 2, AP, Trib]
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That mug shot rivals Tom Delay's.
I'm sure that a mouthy bitch like Tillman didn't cause any problems whatsoever.
I hope they beat her dumb ass with that hat.
@SP:
Why don't you eat shit and die naysayer. You don't even bring good SNARK here.
Oh please, you're as meaningful as a fart in a hurricane you simpleton.
To be fair, the cops did tell her to take off her hat.
I don't actually care how much she mouthed off (which is what I'm assuming she did, hell, it's Dorothy Tillman) NO ONE deserves getting knocked to the ground unless they're brandishing a weapon.
Funny you should say that.
Isn't she sort of famous for waving a gun around at a City Council meeting?
i don't get why people are all about smiling in their mugshots now. it's like some secret 'fuck you' to the cops? "ha ha, i'm arrested, but you can't get me down. unless of course you tase me, bro."
and whaddya know, some conflicting information for the police haters out there. Turns out Tillman was with a clouted CPD sergeant/ex-sergeant in Alabama.
You know, good ole boys and thin blue lines and all. Quick, somebody make up a backup conspiracy!
I really hope she's o.k, I mean considering her service to this city! but I always expected her to be arrested, but not at a hospital, I thought it would be for buying crack around the projects in her the ward
A vile person. A corrupt person. And a person whose
I know a bunch of people in her former ward and I work partly in her ward. Bad stuff about her in the news never even scratched the surface of her corrupt activities.
Her ouster from office, along with this goofy incident, should give us all reason to smile. And hey, why isn't she smiling in the profile shot?
ward .. i think she is. i think she's smirking. but it's hard to tell in the picture. i just saw a weird story about aldermanic cars on fox tonight and she was on there giving good ol' dane placko some hell.
You're smiling after you go "crazy" and they push you to the ground? Huh!
Yeah! Let's go easy on Dorothy. I mean, it's not like she's a painting or anything.