On February 4th, 2019, at approximately 8:00 p.m., Officer Andrew Mamone was riding with Officer J, Sites in a two-man unit when they saw a black 2008 Honda Civic driven suspiciously. Acting on this suspicion, the officers made the traffic stop only to find two black males who were not wearing their seatbelts.
The driver was Tarik (Tar-rick) Green; cooperative, compliant, and calm, but his passenger, Carey Grant, was the most nervous. Part of the reason was that Carey wasn’t even his real name, and another part of the reason was that he had a sheet on him. Officer Sites acted on Grant’s nervousness, asked him to step out of the vehicle, placed him in handcuffs, and tried several times to find him on the system, which was hard to do on an alias like Carey Grant.
Officer Mamone finally got a hit on the system and found his real name to be Daquan Grant. Knowing all this, Grant knew the trouble he’d get into so he ran from the stop while still in handcuffs.
Officer Mamone and Madison chased him on foot till he eventually fell to the ground. Before he could get up and try again, Officer Mamone discharged his taser. Also, during the run, Grant was able to reposition his handcuffs from the back to the front because the cuffs were a bit loose, giving him some wiggle room. But for the officers, the safest position for handcuffs is back, so after they caught Grant and brought him back to the stop, they instructed Grant to get on the ground and reposition his handcuffs. When Grant protested that he physically couldn’t, Officer Mamone threatened him with pepper spray. When he still resisted, Officer Mamone forced his legs through the cuffs.
There are so many red flags in this interrogation; the cuffing, the tasing, and the threatening, which is why after an Internal Affairs investigation was completed, Officer Mamone was brought in for an interview on 28th May 2019 to give some much-needed answers about this encounter.
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