Citizen Report No. 1652578133 - 20554399

Timothy Bryan Steely

Bryan County Sheriff's Office

402 Evergreen Street

Durant, Oklahoma 74701

(580) 924-3000

https://bryancounty…

Date of Offense

November 24, 2016

Offense(s)

False Statements

Use of Force

Supporting Document(s)

Bystander's Video

KXII Article

Statement

KXII quoted Reserve Deputy Steely claiming to be attacked by multiple men..... HOWEVER.... Video taken by a bystander on scene shows that not only was Steely NOT attacked by 6 men, but his claim of being "Choked and punched in the face" is quite different than the account shown on the bystander's video.

On the bystander's video - 40-year-old Jamie Kirk was arrested at the scene - he is pushed backwards, when Steely lunges after him and climbs onto him while he's on the ground.

Kirk and other bystanders on scene remain adamant that Mr. Kirk never hit Deputy Steely.

The article also quotes Steely claiming that he called for backup and was unable to get other officers on scene, however video shows there were in fact other uniformed officers attempting to get Steely off of Mr. Kirk.

Reserve Deputy Steely was NOT wearing a body camera.

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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