[zin0]

Greensboro police officers responding to a possible burglary call questioned Dejuan Yourse, 36, while he was sitting on his mother's porch on June 17, 2016. Body-camera video showed a cordial conversation escalating within minutes before Officer Travis Cole punched Yourse in the face and took him to the ground.

The Greensboro Police Department's internal affairs division found that Cole used excessive force and violated other agency rules. The review found that Yourse had committed no crime. Cole resigned in August 2016, and the second officer resigned about a month later. The city council released the video in September, prompting protests and demands for greater police accountability. The council later voted unanimously to seek the permanent suspension of Cole's law-enforcement certification. On May 2, 2017, the council voted to settle all civil claims for $95,000, and the settlement was executed two days later.

[kellyhound]

A Greensboro man who received a $95,000 settlement from the city for his mistreatment during a 2016 arrest surprised court officials Wednesday by rejecting a plea agreement on several assault charges and now could face up to 51 years in prison.

Dejuan Yourse, 38, of 2 Mistywood Court in Greensboro is charged with two counts of assault on a female, assault by strangulation, battery of an unborn child, habitual misdemeanor assault and being a habitual felon for separate incidents on March 4, 2016, and Feb. 10.

On Tuesday Yourse had signed a plea transcript that gave court officials the impression he would take a plea deal offered by prosecutors. That deal would have consolidated his charges to two counts of assault on a female, and he would have been sentenced to 7 to 8 years in prison.

“I want to go to trial, sir,” Yourse told Judge Martin McGee in Guilford County Superior Court.

Guilford County Chief Assistant District Attorney Howard Neumann told McGee he would not offer Yourse another plea deal and would schedule his trial for early December before Judge Stuart Albright. Without the agreement Yourse faces a maximum of 51 years in prison if jurors were to convict him on all charges.

Yourse made headlines after Greensboro police Officer Travis Cole punched Yourse and threw him to the ground on June 17, 2016, during a burglary investigation. Both Yourse and his partner, Officer Charlotte Jackson, resigned following an internal investigation. The incident led to protests by community activists and calls for better police accountability.

The city settled a lawsuit from Yourse for $95,000 on May 4.

But Yourse had pending criminal charges from both before and after the incident involving Cole.

Most recently, Yourse is accused of attacking his girlfriend, who was a month pregnant at the time.

McGee had Neumann read the terms of Yourse’s rejected plea agreement into the record Wednesday morning.


Yourse has an extensive criminal record that includes past convictions of receiving stolen goods, possession of stolen goods, resisting an officer, assault on a female, assault on an officer, financial card fraud, larceny of a motor vehicle , communicating threats and forgery, among other things.

McGee asked Yourse once more if he understood the amount of prison time he could face by rejecting the plea agreement and whether he was sure.

Yourse, dressed in a striped sweater and blue jeans, stood silent for a minute with his attorney Jason Keith. Yourse’s head began to shake subtly back and forth before he said: “I want to proceed with a trial.”

McGee banned Yourse from contacting any prosecuting witnesses before adjourning his case for the day.

Yourse walked out of the courtroom and kept telling his attorney that what happened in the courtroom was “bullshit.”

He and Keith declined comment.

Friggin' idiot.

[Oswald2001]

'Dejuan'? lol!

Duh low life Ghetto Trash 'name' say it all.

Enn particluh ******* come to mine?

[zin0]

Originally Posted by kellyhound ↗

Friggin' idiot.

You should make it clear that you're calling the cop the idiot Kelly. Oswald is a little confused lol...

[zin0]

Oh damn i just read what that guy did.. yeah they're both idiots

The cop for the excessive force at that time, and the black dude for beating a female up ect..

[curvature]

I get you're..uh..Thang Oswald but I wish there were some way of knowing whether your angst - which is consistant and intense - is ever expressed in real life, in discussion with other than caucasian people.
It is repetitive enough to determine that it is indeed sincere on your part, but are you reluctant to express it face to face with your target?

That is the question. And a sincere one, I might add.

[curvature]

Ive just found a particular lack of Brick and Mortar Balls in individuals that use enlarged bold font on a regular basis.

Difficult to prove to be sure, but some evidence suggests it.

[Ninjavandal]

Yes, a police state partially driven by institutionalized racism.

[ConSmith7]

holy fuck is no where safe from facebook cancer