February 9, 2024, was already a tragic day for Florida’s Dwon Ellis Jr., as it would have been his late son’s seventh birthday, who had drowned and died in 2017. As he went to visit the cemetery of his toddler son, he was stopped for running two stop signs.
Jacksonville sheriff’s officer J.A. Hendricks and T. Murphy were the cops involved in this, and the former initially claimed that he had smelled marijuana on Ellis Jr., then discovered that Ellis was driving with a suspended license. He asked Ellis to exit the car and handcuffed him.
The other officer, Murphy, then slapped Ellis Jr. three times, telling him to stop resisting, even though video evidence clearly shows he was not resisting. In his report, Hendricks mentioned that Ellis Jr. was pulled over because of violating two stop signs, and then he was accused of smelling weed, though Ellis Jr. claimed that he did not smoke marijuana…