He tried to provoke the police into racial profiling him
Seattle metro area police arrested a young black male on two counts of false reporting. He repeatedly called the police on himself while pretending to be someone else.
Stated by talk radio host Jason Rantz, Arlington police suspect the perpetrator , Tamon Leverette, was seeking to “goad” law enforcement into racially profiling him. Leverette’s Community Corrections supervising officer stated to the police that Leverette had cited to him that “he could see himself in a similar circumstance as ‘George Floyd.”
What happened?
On February 22nd, Leverette called the police to report a young black male who was sporting a handgun with a red bandanna. The red bandanna is considered a symbol of gang membership in the “Bloods.”
“Well, I’m at the bus stop, and there’s a colored young man and I can see a pistol right there,” Leverette stated during the phone call. “I saw him fidgeting with a pistol at the bus stop, so it’s kind of scared me.”
While on the call, Leverette said himself to be “Stacy Williams,” and the incident report noted at the time “it sounded like a male speaking in a higher pitch to simulate that of a female’s voice.”
Once the police had arrived on the scene, they found Leverette and quickly searched him, but didn’t find any weapons on him.
“Tamon pulled up his left pant leg, showing me a Department of Corrections (DOC) GPS tracking ankle band,” the officer wrote in the incident report. “He informed me that he was not doing anything wrong, just waiting for the bus to come so he could go to his DOC check in with his assigned DOC Officer.”
Charges were not filed at the time, and they went their separate ways.
The next day, Leverette told his supervising officer that he had been the victim of racial profiling. The officer wrote in the incident report that Leverette told him “he was stopped and frisked by ‘Everett Police’ for no reason the day before because of ‘being black.'”
The officer then reached out to “Stacy Williams” to follow up on their story, Leverette’s lies came undone.
“I noted that the voice mail was set up by a mail with a voice that seemed very similar to that of Tamon,” the officer reported. “I asked Dispatch if this phone number had been previously used for any calls to 911 Dispatch. The Dispatcher notified me shortly after that the phone number had called 911 on five separate occasions in December of 2020 for ‘Civil’ calls at an address of 520 Commercial Ave, Darrington, WA. Dispatch advised me that the only name used to call into 911 on those incidents was ‘Tamon L.'”
Once the police confirmed the phone calls belonged to Leverttes’s number, they made an arrest for false reporting a crime.
That’s not all
While conducting the investigation, the police discovered that Leverette had attempted to provoke the police into a similar situation in at least one other occasion.
Just last December, Leverette called police, claiming to be “Eric Johnson,” to report a black male wearing “black and red” and brandishing a gun in the presence of his children.