(NEWSER) – When Vickie Williams-Tillman saw a police officer struggling with someone on the side of the road as she was headed out to shop Sunday morning in Baton Rouge, the 56-year-old didn’t have time to think, she says—”I could see in his eyes he needed help. … I did what God needed me to do.” Specifically, she got out of her car and jumped onto the back of the man allegedly attacking the officer, the Advocate reports. The officer saw drug paraphernalia inside the car of 28-year-old suspect Thomas Bennett during a traffic stop, per police. Bennett allegedly became aggressive while the officer tried to handcuff him; police say Bennett used the officer’s own baton to hit the officer in the head, and was trying to grab the gun from the officer’s holster. Williams-Tillman called police to ask for backup first, then jumped into the fray, per a Baton Rouge PD Facebook post.
Williams-Tillman “made a big difference,” says a Baton Rouge police spokesperson, acknowledging that things could have ended differently had the woman not stopped to help. Ultimately, another officer arrived on the scene and was able to hit Bennett with a stun gun and detain him. Williams-Tillman hurt her wrist in the incident and the original officer, Billy Aime, suffered head wounds, but no one was seriously injured.
Drug junk? For THAT he tries to kill a cop? Too bad the perp lived.
I’m going out on a limb and speculating that Vickie didn’t vote for Clinton.
Too bad she wasn’t a CC holder, it could have ended even better.
Good on her!
I hope she got a few slugs in on the bastard
She is a black woman who helped a white cop–I know that shouldn’t make a difference but it might in her life. Good for her for doing the right things–calling for help and then helping.
That’s how it’s done, not pull out your phone and record everything you can post it on the Internet.
>so you can
I bet the attacker sure was stunned! Good job Vickie!!
My ex-wife was on my back for years, but I wouldn’t exactly call her a hero.
Great deed!!!!
And that courageous woman had the presence of mind to call the police for back-up before she jumped in. She’s terrific!