The phrase “timing is everything” is apparently one that The Wilmington, North Carolina Sheriff’s Department has never heard of.
Gladwyn Taft Russ III, who was charged with threatening his ex-wife, agreed to surrender to officials after his father’s funeral. However, officers attempted to arrest Russ during the ceremony as he was in the process of loading his own father’s coffin into a hearse.
Two deputies kneed Russ in the back before tasering him, which led to funeral pandemonium as Russ went wild. In efforts to “maintain the peace,” officers began waving guns in the air and threatening to shoot. The congregation of grieving family members thought they were witnessing a drug deal gone bad, and a pallbearer was quoted as saying “we almost dropped the casket.”
At the end of the day, Russ was charged with disorderly conduct, felony malicious conduct by a prisoner, assault on a government official, and resisting an officer. However, a Wilmington, N.C. Sheriff’s official has since apologized for the incident, making it all better. Way to go boys, way to go.
