Opinion by: Dana McKinley, Tampa FL
A journalist at The Free Press put the Jordon Coury v. City of Tampa lawsuit under a more powerful lens than was used by the high-speed spin media who didn’t check out videos or Plaintiff claims or military records on a felon Plaintiff. And here’s what I come up with from the piece that Childress wrote.
This case is about a police officer discharging rubber bullets that injured a current Army Reserve Soldier at a Black Lives Matter – George Floyd protest at Curtis Hixon Park last year. Coury was struck in the back of the head and he still has health problems.
Are any police officers rogue in this deal?
The jury hasn’t assembled yet. Discovery is still a month or two off.
But it looks like a meticulously weaved case of public sympathy, as well. An attempt to create the perception for the public at large – and potential jurors – that Jordon Coury is the nice guy he actually hasn’t been in his brief 25 years on the planet. Larry Klayman, author of It Takes a Revolution: Forget the Scandal Industry, and founder of Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch, calls it, “Trying to make a saint out of someone who isn’t a saint.”
Coury’s self-imposed character assassination consists of battering a woman where the State Attorney’s office scrutinized the case and intended to prosecute, but the judge dismissed it. Participating in a slap-fest with a live-in girlfriend, Coury ultimately roughed her up and threw her to the ground without regard for her physical well-being. That’s what law enforcement says.
Beyond that, Coury was adjudicated guilty on five counts of felony for a three-trip Walmart theft scheme that deceptively produced cold hard cash in hand from a pawn shop. Then, there’s resisting arrest without violence because he apparently wanted to run and not face the music. This deal looks like potentially, another case of having sticky fingers.
His un-saintly deeds mostly occurred during his stint in the Army National Guard when he was 19 and 20 years old. And who knows what a character like this has done, for which he hasn’t been caught.
The point is, making public statements to falsely claim purity smacks of hypocrisy – and racks up another self-imposed character assassination of dishonesty. Making public statements such as, “I’ve always been on their side,” meaning, the police; and “I’ve always been an outstanding civilian and a soldier since I became an able-bodied adult”- which by the way, is age 18 in Florida – is inappropriate and not even necessary to build his rubber bullet case. To get the “Awwww” factor going in high gear, however, he tells of sleepless nights with terrible dreams of people doing harm to him.
Meanwhile, his lawsuit states that while he was using his military skills to lead people to safety once the cop’s rubber bullets started stinging, he got shot. Sounds heroic, doesn’t it? But his attorneys conceded they have no evidence that this is how Coury went down. Actually, Coury himself on his video production of the protest claims he was just sittin’ there. But of course, that tale isn’t as sexy.
My questions to Coury would be:
What do you think of throwing a woman to the ground with possible bodily injuries, now that you have been thrown to the ground yourself?
What would your battered girlfriend say?
Would she agree that you have been a righteous man?
And would law enforcement agree that you have always been on their side?
George Herbert wrote in 1651: ‘Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another.’
Get facts straight please. Contact me directly if you have anything to ask me.