Final arguments in trial against 12-year-old girl mistaken for hooker
A deadlocked jury resulted in a mistrial for Dymond Milburn, the black girl who -- when she was 12 years old -- was charged with assaulting police officers who tried to arrest her in her front yard.
The cops had been looking for three white hookers. Milburn was hospitalized and later arrested at her school.
The Galveston County Daily News reports that she won't be tried again:
Criminal District Attorney Kurt Sistrunk said that, based on discussions with jurors after trial, the state won't prosecute the case again.
Sounds like at least some people on the jury had a tough time believing a 12-year-old should be convicted for resisting three plainclothes cops who jumped out of a van and tried to take her.
The Houston Press reports that final arguments are being held in the criminal assault trial against Dymond Milburn who was 12 years old when four Galveston police officers (David Roark, Justin Popovich, Sean Stewart, and Sgt. Gilbert Gomez) allegedly beat her up with a flashlight and threatened to shoot her puppy, while she was in her yard attending to tripped circuit breaker.
Background: One morning a couple of years ago, Dymond was in her yard, resetting a circuit breaker at the request of her mother. Four plainclothes Galveston police officers were driving by in an unmarked van, responding to a call that three white prostitutes were working Milburn's neighborhood. The police spotted Dymond (who is black), jumped out of the van and announced that she was under arrest for prostitution. Dymond grabbed a tree and called for her father. The police officers allegedly beat Dymond so badly that she had to be hospitalized (for black eyes as well as throat and ear drum injuries).
Three weeks later, police showed up at Milburn's school and arrested her for assault. Hence, the trial against her.
