Georgia couple sue Clinch County sheriff and his wife for false arrest

[Anonymous]

Georgia couple sue Clinch County sheriff and his wife for false arrest

On April 7, 2022, 37 year old former marine Darius Rice was at the QuikTrip store in Henry County where the incident happened. According to Rice, he made "unintentional and incidental contact" with Clinch County Deputy April Tinsley as she backed away from the coffee counter inside the store. After Tinsley exited the store, she allegedly told her husband Stephen Tinsley, who was sheriff of Clinch County, that Rice grabbed her buttocks.

Stephen Tinsley immediately attempted to arrest Rice and body slammed him into a concrete wall, causing him to lose consciousness.

At that time, Rice's girlfriend, Ashley Jackson, began asking what was happening and began recording the incident. April Tinsley reportedly grabbed Jackson's phone and threw it into the back of a truck, leading to a physical altercation between the two women and Jackson's eventual arrest.

When Henry County law enforcement arrived on the scene, the lawsuit says april Tinsley "falsely" accused Jackson of grabbing Stephen Tinsley, and that Tinsley never identified herself as law enforcement before arresting Jackson.

The case was taken over by the Henry County Sheriff's Office, and Rice was charged with sexual battery and transported to the Henry County Jail.

The lawsuit contained attachments from April Tinsley's personnel file that appear to show that she previously lied about her work during a 2016 drug case in Ashburn. Additionally, the lawsuit alleges April Tinsley was accused of falsifying mileage sheets in 2018.

[Anonymous]

Wait. Are you saying she lied about a 2016 case involving drugs, right here in Ashburn, VA? Was she a sheriff?

[Anonymous]

I hope there’s good video footage from the store.

[Anonymous]

Just googled this. I hope someone gets to the bottom of the whole thing and that the sherif—who worked in a different county—loses their job and pension. These out of control rogue law enforcements need to know they’re not above the law and they need to stay in their lane. This wasn’t their jurisdiction and if the two sheriffs had concerns about this guy they should have done due diligence and asked for surveillance video and proceeded from there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just googled this. I hope someone gets to the bottom of the whole thing and that the sherif—who worked in a different county—loses their job and pension. These out of control rogue law enforcements need to know they’re not above the law and they need to stay in their lane. This wasn’t their jurisdiction and if the two sheriffs had concerns about this guy they should have done due diligence and asked for surveillance video and proceeded from there.

Agree. They should be prosecuted for false arrest and for assault.

[Anonymous]

Echoes of Emmett Till.