The attorney for Brandon Calloway is questioning why Oakland police acted violently against a 25-year-old over a traffic stop.
Brandon Calloway, 25, was severely beaten by Oakland, Tennessee, police officers on July 16 following a minor traffic violation.from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga last year with an electrical engineering degree. He made his mother and father, Dinishia and Edward Calloway, proud. “He has always been very ambitious, very creative and has worked hard.
“You don’t have an alleged shooter or a robbery, you have a stop sign violation,” said Wharton. “Where was the training if there was training? And is this how they are training to take actions first and ask questions later?”Calloway allegedly failed to stop for a stop sign while driving 32 miles per hour in a 20 mph speed limit zone. An Oakland police officer, identified in an affidavit as “Officer D Jackson,” followed him to his father’s home, where Brandon lives.
Officers at the home called for backup. Police forced their way inside the house, “without warning,” Wharton told HuffPost.Officers detained Calloway, beat him in several areas of his body with a baton, used a taser gun on him and slammed him on the ground, and one of the officers stepped on his head and neck “to add insult to injury,” Wharton said.Calloway was arrested after he was hospitalized.
“He is somebody we are very proud of, and he has grown to be an outstanding young man with the way he has carried things with his life,” Edward Calloway said.
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