Damieon Flowers
Damieon Flowers
Cops And Black Children
On September 19th, 2016, Flowers shot a video with his phone of some cops questioning young black children in the middle of a plaza.
[11] [2]Flowers pleaded with the cops to leave them alone as they are "just children... let them go".
He goes on to advise the children not to saying anything and to wait for their mothers to arrive.
After the cops let the children go, Flowers continued to scold the cops for their actions.
The cops eventually leave and Flowers expresses his antipathy against cops.
On the morning of Thursday, September 22nd, 2016, the Wilmington Police Department pressed felony charges against Damieon Flowers, but by the evening of the same day, the charges were dropped.
Wilmington Police Chief Bobby Cummings said:
"As you know, there are a lot of incidents going around our nation that impact our community relations with the police.
We don't need to add fuel to that fire.
We need to be considerate.
We need to listen to the information and observe what you see.
We need to stop jumping to conclusions on the first thing that we see without having all of the information.
We will deal with situations within our Police Department internally, but again, we will not be going forward with charges on Damieon Flowers."