Argumentative Essay: Tyquan Richardson

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Jumping handcuffed from a third-story window at the Fulton County Pretrial Services in Atlanta, the man who leaped from the window fell head first and died. The 22-year-old man, Tyquan Devoun Richard was going to enter a drug intervention program at the Fulton County Superior Court at 10am when criminal law arrest him for a weapons charge.

When they handcuffed and brought him to the conference room, he raced off from four police offers and leaped through a glass window. Witnesses of the event say that he had fallen headfirst and broke several bones when he hit the sidewalk. Investigators of criminal law are looking at how the man got a gun past courthouse security.

Richardson said that he never wanted to go back to jail, but few people realized how much he meant it. Four days prior, he had left Fulton County Jail on bond, but he attempted to hide a .25-caliber handgun outside the courthouse, which put him in handcuffs again for violating the terms of his bond. Richardson ran headfirst into the glass and fell 40 feet below. He died at Grady Memorial Hospital. Tyquan's father, Melvin Richardson, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that has son had not been suicidal. He does not believe the story at all. Because of an ongoing investigation, the Atlanta police department declined to release the 911 call. …show more content…

Despite the allegations from Richardon's father that it was a cover up, APD Sgt. Warren Pickard says that they have video footage of the incident. It does not, however, show the man diving through the window. APD Capt. Michael O'Connor says that the incident was so bizarre and happened so fast that it defies what anyone could have planned in

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