Police Corruption, Guns, Justice

My Side to What Happened!
By George Wilson

February 14th 1980, I came out of my house. I had a 30 x 30 rifle in my hand. I put the rifle in the back of my car. I went to the gun shop to have some work done on it because the night before the rifle wasn't working. The rifle would not hold any bullets. The man at the gun shop told me that he didn't have the right parts to fix it, so I got back into my car and went to my sister's house and left the rifle there. 15 minutes later, I left her house in my car. I was stopped by the chief of police "James Stevens" about 400 feet away from her house. chief Stevens asked me if he could look into my car and I told him to go right ahead. He looked and asked me to open the trunk. I opened the trunk, he looked and said I was free to go.

I went back to my sister's house and told her what had just happened to me. I didn't understand why I was being pulled over because I hadn't done anything wrong. It came to me that when I came out of my house that morning, putting the rifle in the back of my car and someone must have seen me. They must have called the police and that is why I was stopped. I am an ex-convict and I am not supposed to have a gun. right then and there I thought I had better sell this thing. I got the rifle from my sister's house, put it back in my car and went home. Right across the street from my house was a Cafe. A man by the name of Joe Wade ran the Cafe. I went to the Cafe and asked him if he wanted to buy it. He said he would, but he didn't have enough money right then to pay for it. So I was on my way to leave and there was four people playing cards at a table, one man and three ladies. I made it to the door and this man named Robert Boyd said "When you get back to Parchman, I am going to have your girlfriend. I turned around and walked up to him and asked him "What did you say?" and of course he said that he didn't say anything. I was heading back out the door when he said again, "I'm going to have your girlfriend when you go back to Parchman. I walked back to the table and I told him to say it again and I hit him with the rifle. Mr. Boyd went to the telephone to call the police and I left the Cafe.

I went home (which is across the street) and I put the rifle away. seven minutes later the police officer came out of the Cafe into the street. His name was "S.G.T. Austin Stancie". There was another officer there and his name was "Coy Lee Keys". he was a rookie cop. Also standing there was Robert Boyd and Joe Wade from the Cafe. I was standing on my front step. Joe Wade was talking in a high voice and I started moving a little closer.Austin Stance was asking Robert Boyd what had happened and Robert Boyd was telling him that me and him had a misunderstanding. Joe Wade came closer to me and told me he never wanted me in his Cafe again, and if I did he was going to kill me. I told Joe Wade that he wasn't going to do a damn thing to me. Officer Austin Stancie told me to shut up, so I did. the police officer told Robert Boyd that the only way for them to arrest me was for him to press charges. Before Officer Stancie is finishing his sentence, Joe Wade said yet again that he was going to kill me. I had to keep my eyes on Mr. Wade because he was carrying a 38 caliber automatic on his side. I told Mr. Boyd to go ahead and fill out papers on me, because I am not going to get anything but get out on bond and then I will come back and kill him. I turned around quickly and I heard Robert Boyd tell Officer Stancie that I was going in my house to get the gun. I did get the gun and I had it facing the ground and I said "Wade are you ready?"! Joe Wade had gone into his Cafe. The police officers were behind there car waiting for me to make a move. I went back into my house and I heard the officer yelling with a loud voice :"George, give me that gun". The police surrounded my house. They kicked the door down guns cocked and loaded! Officer Stancie came to where I was and he told me to give him the gun. I agreed to give him the gun, which was never ever pointed at anyone. He told me to bring the gun out. I gave him the gun which was still pointed at the floor. At this time both officers were in the house. Officer Keys was putting the handcuffs on me and I started telling my brother Joe to get Robert Boyd and SGT. Stancie told me to shut up and then proceeded to hit me in the face with the shot gun. I got knocked out.....

People tell me that I was in the street for about 20 minutes because my head hit the back of the police car and from there I was taken to the Greenwood Mississippi county jail. I awakened and got to my feet and there was blood all over. The police were trying to get me to stop talking and they knocked me out again. I was out until the next morning, handcuffed. I went to the hospital with fractured ribs and my head was 2 times the size it usually is. I was given an indictment. Sgt. Austin Stancie's plan was to cover himself up and to make sure that it looked like I tried to kill him. He did that because when he jumped on me, there was no way to justify hitting me while in handcuffs, so he lied. He then used the law to cover his lies just because he was a law enforcement officer. He used the color of my skin as a black man living in the white man's world. He did not read me my Miranda rights when he arrested me. I filed papers on Joe Wade for threatening my life, also the court fined Mr. Wade for threatening my life. the court also gave me a couple days in jail so that I would not get out on bond before I go to trial. Sgt. Austin Stancie knew that if I would have got out on bond, that I was going to bring it right back to him by going over the law's head He was afraid of me and had good reason to be; Sgt. Stancie forgot all about what he is supposed to do as a law enforcement officer. He took the law into his own hands, he forgot all about the call Robert Boyd made where I had assaulted him and Mr. Boyd did not file any charges on me. Officer Stancie made sure that I will never get out of this hell hole by lying, because he knows that I never broke the law. He is a police officer therefore he can get away with it. The law reads: (Exodus 21-16) Whoever kidnaps a man, either to sell him or to keep him as a slave is to be put to death.

I went to court on a aggravated assault charge on Sgt. Stancie and 32 days after I got locked up, I got life without parole ion 5 1/2 hours. Sgt. Stancie, Officer Coy Lee Keys and Joe Wade all said that I tried to point the gun and tried to shoot Sgt. Stancie, but Robert Boyd said that he did not see me doing anything. they all had witnesses for the state. I had four witnesses saying that I did not point the gun at the officer. At my trial, one of the jurors went to sleep for 25 minutes. My attorney Jon M. Barnwell of Greenwood Mississippi, District Attorney Frank A. Carlton, assistant District Attorney Hon. George A. Everett and trial judge Hon. Webb Franklin all saw this happening and not one of them said anything. Is that justice? All I see is Just-Ice in my trial. Sgt. Austin Stancie became the Chief of Police at the Greenwood Mississippi City Jail in 1989. My attorney Whitman D. Mouger asked Sgt. Stancie will he go along with an early release for me after doing 10 years and the Sgt. said no.

In 1992 Greenwood Mississippi City Counsel did not return the contracts of Police Chief Austin Stancie, because Stancie was taking the trust out of In God We Trust.

Now officer Stancie is a police officer with the Atlanta Georgia Police department, but is God going to keep letting Mr. Austin Stancie keep taking the trust out of In God We Trust, how long is this going to keep going on?

Officer Coy Lee Keys is no longer a police officer. I think that he is willing to come forward and tell the truth about Feb. 14, 1980, about the conspiracy that Sgt. Stancie deprived George Wilson of his civil rights. I am not looking for revenge toward Sgt. Stancie, but I do think that it is time for Mr. Stancie to find out that God is real, alive, just like I found out by telling the truth:

The gun was not examined by a ballistics expert
Stancie made those notations on that envelope and attached it to the rifle
When he undressed the rifle and the bullets fell out on the table, "so what" he said in court.That is what happened to me, George Wilson.

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