Kentucky Officer Sentenced for Brutality Against Protestors as Tennessee Officer is Convicted

     Cory P. Evans is a piece of shit, and now the world knows it. Compared to other major racial justice cases in 2020 and 2021, like the murders of George Floyd, Daunte Wright, and Ahmaud Arbery, the case of Breonna Taylor's murder has seen almost no closure aside from a civil settlement. Protests sparked in Louisville against police brutality were met, like in most other places around the nation, with more police brutality. Enter Evans: on May 31st, 2020, while working as part of LMPD's Special Response Team, he ordered a group of peaceful protestors who were out past curfew to surrender in order to be arrested. They all did as they were told, but, as one protestor sat on his knees with his hands behind his back, rather than cuff him, Evans clubbed him in the back of his head, knocking his victim out while splitting his head open.

     Evans has a history of brutality. In 2015, while his body-worn camera was deactivated, he shot a pet dog in its owner's yard. In December 2018, he was investigated for excessive force, and, in November 2019, he drove a vehicle he was pursuing off the road. His attorney, fat white supremacist Brian Butler, gave the defense that his client was an Afghanistan veteran who should have gone to the Veterans Court and gotten 'psychiatric help,' that he had saved four lives as an officer, and that other protestors were throwing urine and feces at officers. That has nothing to do with the case at hand: if you can't focus on the arrest you are making and move on, you can't cut it as an officer, and blaming the victim while pulling the veteran card was a despicable move on the part of the lawyer. 

     Evans said he would be "forever disappointed that the government [he] served... sought a Draconian sentence." You're a criminal and a crook, Cory P. Evans, and you should have gotten longer. At least, however, you are now a felon who will spend two years in federal prison followed by two years of supervised release after pleading guilty to using unreasonable force, and, most importantly, you will never work as a police officer again.

 

     The same is true for Anthony Bean for multiple reasons. While Evans is 34, Bean is 61. The former acting chief of police in Tracy City and chief deputy of Grundy County, Tennessee Bean was convicted of using excessive force twice in an arrest in 2014 during his capacity in the former job and once in 2017 during his capacity in the latter job. 

     Unlike Evans, Bean opted to take his case to a bench trial, where, in January 2022, he was convicted on all three counts of the indictment against him. He is scheduled to be sentenced in June, and he could face up to 30 years in a federal prison for his actions. There's a very real chance he could die in prison, as federal inmates must serve at least 85 percent of their sentence, and, even if he doesn't, he will almost certainly spend his last years on supervised release. Have a nice life, Mr. Bean.