Citizen Report No. 1669143135 - 1583562901

Tyler Skinner

Wilson Police Department

1065 SH-70A

Wilson, Oklahoma 73463

(580) 668-2136

Date of Offense

February 20, 2022

Offense(s)

False Statements

Supporting Document(s)

Wilson PD Public Statement

News Article

Statement

CLEET #: 0163473

License Type: Fulltime Peace Officer

License Status: Active

License Effective Date: 01/06/2022

License Expiry Date: N/A

On or about the 20th of February, 2022. Wilson Police Officer, Tyler Skinner, reported that he had been shot in his chest by an unknown assailant and said he wasn’t injured because he had been wearing a ballistic vest. Right after the fake incident reportedly happened, the City of Wilson offered a $5,000 reward for information leading to an arrest.

Tyler Skinner later admitted to the Wilson Police Department and the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation that the shooting between him and an alleged suspect did not happen. The cause for the fabricated story is still unknown, however, the Wilson police chief, Kevin Coley he believed that it may be a mental health issue.

We will not stand by as our brothers and sisters are brutalized, criminalized, and silenced.

We reject a world where the powerful profit from our poverty and our lives are treated as expendable. We will not wait for justice to be handed down from above.
We will organize, resist, and take it for ourselves.

WE ARE NO LONGER ASKING...
#ReformIsNotARequest

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