After T-Boz’s cousin Eddie Russell Jr. was killed by police in Peoria, Illinois on September 20, the TLC vet revealed that Russell’s mother is suing the Peoria Police Department. She also denied there was any kind of standoff as police have stated.
“My cousin Anita Johnson, his mother, is going to sue to Peoria Police Department and she should,” T-Boz told TMZ. “It’s unjust. The crime doesn’t fit the punishment. The fact that people can actually murder people and still walk out with the cops. This child had a non-violent record, never hurt anyone ever in his life. He was mentally ill. The police aren’t equipped to deal with mentally ill patients. They didn’t wait for the person to show up and come.”
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She continued, “Somebody’s life was taken, but 18 times? No one deserves that. It wasn’t a standoff. He didn’t come out shooting. Even if he had a gun, he didn’t murder nobody.”
T-Boz’s family plans to file a wrongful death lawsuit against the Peoria Police Department.
(The original version of this article was published on September 26, 2017 and can be found below.)
TLC’s Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins is grieving the sudden loss of her cousin Eddie Russell Jr. after he was fatally shot by police last Wednesday (September 20) in Peoria, Illinois.
“My Cousin Was Shot 18 Times Including the Face and Back of His Head!,” she wrote. “He Harmed NO ONE EVER! He Had Mental Health Issues AND THE COPS KNEW THAT! Anything he’s ever Done Was minor and NON VIOLENT!”
She also added, Russell Jr. was “mentally ill.”
According to Peoria Journal Star, the 25-year-old man was a suspect in a bank robbery. When police tracked Russell Jr. down at his home, he was reportedly shot 18 times after an hours-long standoff.
Peoria police said Russell Jr. came towards them with a handgun, forcing them to fire. Russell Jr. was pronounced dead at the scene by County Coroner Jamie Harwood.
Russell Jr. had reportedly just been released from a mental health facility before he was killed. His father, Eddie Russell, Sr., had asked police to let him inside to talk to his son and they told him “trust us.”
In her post, T-Boz is adamant Russell Jr. didn’t have a gun in the alleged bank robbery at First Mid-Illinois Bank & Trust.
“The cops told his mother to call him out on a bullhorn USED her saying “WE WILL GIVE HIM THE HELP HE NEEDS,” she wrote. “and He Came Out Because He Heard His Mother and They used beyond excessive force to gun him down also with heavy artillery used in warfare! 18 times? Shot eighteen times??? IF THEIR GOING ON WHAT HES HOLDING AT THE BANK THAT ISN’T A GUN!”
Russell Jr.’s lawyer, Andrew Stroth, is calling the fatal shooting an “execution.”
“It was unjustified, it was excessive force, and the family demands answers and a full investigation,” Stroth reportedly said Tuesday (September 26) during a lunchtime news conference at the Peoria Police Department.”
He continued, “The family demands reform, and the family demands justice. We want to make sure that the city of Peoria and the Peoria Police Department and the Illinois State Police do a full and transparent investigation into what happened last week to Eddie Russell Jr.”
Wow! So she was there at the bank and at the house when this happened? She is saying that something clearly was not a gun etc. Pretty bold. Sounds to me like she was nowhere near either incident. If he didnt have a gun, the cops are in big trouble, relax though, im sure he did. Too bad, sounds like he needed serious help and was shot over having access to a gun he shouldnt have had access to. T-Boz is going Dindu quick on this one…
And you are going full-retard in your post. If NO one has the details, how can you be quick to judge a man and condemn him to death? Kill your kids and then yourself.
LOL. I didn’t judge or condemn anyone to anything dummy. You think dead people can be judged or condemned to death? I went full retard? LOL. Turns out the cops DID have body cams on and filmed the whole thing. He actually had a pistol. Damn. Sound and feel pretty stupid, huh? Dindu reading?
18 shots is what thugs in the street do to their rivals. That’s incredibly excessive, gun or not.
Indeed. Best one can do is stay out the way of cops and all these weirdos with their pseudo intelligent underhanded grouping comments about brothers . They will all fall eventually to their own stupidity (karma)
Fuck cops
“He Harmed NO ONE EVER!” – and you guys wonder where we get the ‘dindu nuffin’ jokes, this is ridiculous how black ppl are always so innocent according to other black people. when white ppl defend each other like this, the zionist media calls it white supremacy.
U a fuckin idiot why u even post shit asshole
Yeah ….he’s just baiting Brodie don’t even waste your time….probably like 14… and if not then I’m LMAO
harmed no one ever but came at the cops with a handgun but “dindu nuffin”
ok then…
Awful lot of “facts” about the incident coming from her, especially considering by her own words, nobody was there as a witness.
#DinduNuffin #DinduNuffResearch
HE DINDU NUFFIN HE A GOOD BOY
ANOTHER ONE CUMS IN HIS PANTS.
Oh yeah,TLC, you irrelevant ass bitches, don’t one of you bitches got sickle cell or something? Fuckin with us, bitch, you gon catch a seizure or heart attack. You better back the fuck up or get smacked the fuck up.
Hmm funny I always thought you got your biggest thrills from f*cking your pets or molesting your brothers & sisters… My bad Jethro lmao– DX needs to do better with filtering out all of you whiney attention seeking irrelevant bitches always commenting some bs…. Get the d*cks out ya throats may you won’t sound so damn ignorant(2Cop not you you’ve been taking it up the *ss too long)
Nope. We get our biggest thrills from selling poison to teenagers then spending the rest of our miserable lives in prison for glorifying that lifestyle. If we’re not shot by the cops yelling Dindu when they come take us away. Wait, who do I mean by us? LOLOLOLOL
POISON LIKE ZOLOFT, ADDERALL, OXYCOTIN, RIGHT?
Yeah. More people go to jail and feed the prison system from legal pharmaceutical drugs than crack, cocaine, meth and heroin. Let me guess. You’re attending an “online” university at 40+ years of age.
Hahahaha, this fuckin killed me for some reason
You could use some of each of the above. FAKE MUSLIM ALERT! This enocide promotor is using terms like “swine.” LOL. Must be a follower of the “honorable” adulterer/polygamist Elijah Mohammed. LoL
How was the above not deleted by DX as racist?
Because HHDX moderates comments that WE deem non-compliant with our guidelines. Not you, asshole.
Oh. Ok. You’re the white hurl that decides what’s racist or not according to the Pakistani or Indian owner’s guidelines. Got it. Thanks for clearing that one up for us.
Keep talking like that and I will request that your IP Address be banned from using this site.
Hahahaha. Hilarious. You’re website needs the same IP address hits to keep their revenue. I guess you’re a BLONDE whitegirl. LOL. She said request. Still, racism is OK as long as it’s towards whites. You’re white, so I won’t get banned and keep helping your people get paid, right? LOL. Don’t make fun of Zionists or African Americans. LOL. Freedom of speech also isn’t a big deal. LOL. You do realize that EVERYWHERE has free wifi and they all have their own IP addresses (blonde)? LOL. Asshole! LOL. Why do brothers bang you then not call you back? Do you ban their IP address afterwards? Or do you ask Apu to do so? LOL
They’re racist towards white people and Muslims and allow negative comments about them. Once you say something about a brother tho? Deleted fast as fuck boi
I charge the White man with being the greatest swine eater on Earth.
Black folks absolutely HATE ribs and chitlins or so I’ve heard.
U heard wrong alot of older black folks love chitlins and ribs even tho chitlins stink ungodly lol alot of Southerners love that shit and ribs me on the other hand find them both repulsive lol
Sarcasm? Maybe?
No just ignorance on your part
Wow. A retort to “I charge the devil the white mean with being addicted to swine” or whatever fake 5%r bullshit dude said, saying I heard black folk hate chitlins and ribs… sorry. Unless you’re a vegetarian, how do you not like ribs? At least beef ones. Pork ones are great too. I eat pork, and haven’t sold drugs or murdered ANYONE, let alone my own race that I keep crying is getting shot in justly. Never mind that the amount of black people that were ACTUALLY unarmed that were shot by cops in the last few years are equivvelent to hit by lightning and shark Stock numbers. Brother usually don’t swim though. I digress. Yup. You are ignorant.
How do you know all the officers involved were all white officers? Also what if there was a black officer who is transtrace and believes they are white?
You really believe that…and that’s why you’ve held your people down since they got their freedom. Y’alls legacy is oppression and being the victim. No matter how much good black people do in the world, there will always be the boogers who keep oppression at the top of the totem pole for the black americans legacy…what a shame. Instead of praising the good, we get the boogers memorializing the armed scumbag who got shot by the cops and we eat it up cuz its so much more satisfying to be the victim than the able bodied person who takes accountability for their actions. 13% of the population keeps telling everybody that America is only about what goes on in their small world of inner city chaos. The world is bigger than the hood, and 13% of the population cannot be given 50% of the cut…it’s an impossibility, wake the fuck up man