LEVISA LAZER EXCLUSIVE: VIDEO OF POLICE ALTERCATION INCIDENT AT LOUISA POLICE DEPARTMENT IN CITY HALL THAT LED TO THE DEATH BILLY COLLINS.

CENSORED!

THIS VIDEO CONTAINS LANGUAGE AND VIOLENCE NOT SUITABLE FOR UNDER AGE CHILDREN

 Click picture for seven minute body cam video.

AUTOPSY SAYS COLLINS SUFFERED MASSIVE BODILY INJURIES BUT WAS NEVER SHOWN TO LAWRENCE COUNTY GRAND JURY IN NOVEMBER 2015.

LAWRENCE COUNTY CORONER SAYS ANNA MELVIN’S OFFICE NEVER CONTACTED HIM FOR ANY DOCUMENTS HE HAD ON THE CASE; CALLS GRAND JURY PROCESS ON COLLINS CASE A “RUSH JOB” 

SINCE JANUARY 1, 2015 TO JUNE 7, 2016:

* 1,582 AMERICAN CITIZENS HAVE DIED AT THE HANDS OF U.S. LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES.
* 51 AMERICAN CITIZENS HAVE DIED IN OVERSEAS IN TERRORIST ATTACKS.
* 68 AMERICAN POLICE OFFICERS HAVE BEEN MURDERED IN THE LINE OF DUTY (OUT OF 171 TOTAL LINE OF DUTY DEATHS).
* 39 AMERICAN POLICE DOGS HAVE BEEN KILLED IN THE LINE OF DUTY.

JUNE 7, 2016 – written by WADE QUEEN

A lawsuit that was filed May 20 in Lawrence Circuit Court over the beating and taser death of Billy Collins last year by the Estate of Billy Collins Jr. (Son of Billy Collins) against Louisa officer Steve Wilburn, The Louisa Police Department, The Lawrence County Sheriff’s Dept. and The City of Louisa; has led to exclusive access via the Collins family and their legal representation to the body camera video of the entire incident at the Louisa Police station as well as the state coroner’s report that shows his death as a homicide, a report that was never revealed by the Kentucky State Police nor Commonwealth Attorney Anna Melvin’s office to the Lawrence County Grand Jury this past November 2015.

The merit information on the lawsuit and other details regarding the Collins death case can be read HERE.

The body camera video of the police altercation shows that Billy Collins was severely beaten by four police officers involved (Louisa police officers Stephen Wilburn and Jordan Miller, and Lawrence County deputies Mason Keefer and Mack Wilhite), with their police batons, as well as being punched with their hands. Collins was struck numerous times with a police baton stick by deputy Mason Keefer himself.

In addition, Billy Collins was struck with tasers by the officers five to as many as seven times, and possibly more, with just before one of the taser shots Collins raising his hands in surrender. Throughout the entire video, there was no evidence that Billy Collins struck or tried to strike any of the four police officers involved. The video shows that Collins was just hanging on to whatever he could find in the police station and would not let loose. 

During all this episode on the video, all of the officers can be heard yelling extensive amount of obscenities and profanities at Billy Collins. Collins also cursed at the officers

Coincidentally, there was no video made of Billy Collins actual arrest at the Lawrence County high school area by officer Steven Wilburn, with eyewitnesses stating that Wilburn never placed handcuffs on Collins when he arrested him and then placed him in his police cruiser to be taken to the Louisa Police Station.

In addition to the police video, the Levisa Lazer also got access to a copy of the Kentucky State Medical Examiners’s autopsy report on Billy Collins. It lists the cause of death of Collins as a ‘homicide’. It further states the death by homicide was caused by “altercation with police”. The death certificated also lists Billy Collins heart problems.

In the medical examiner’s report, there is a compiled list of the injuries on Billy Collins body and they are listed as numerous lacerations, bruises, a cut down eyebrow, five or six broken ribs, abrasions, five places with electrical barb contusions, and multiple abdominal adhesions and injuries to his thigh and arm bones and to his head in the back and front.

In regards of the state coroners medical report on Billy Collins, the Levisa Lazer contacted Lawrence County Coroner Mike Wilson who also listed the death as a homicide on the official death certificate.

Wilson further stated Commonwealth’s Attorney Anna Melvin never sought any information from him or his coroner’s office. Wilson added, “I still have never been contacted by Anna Melvin’s office regarding any documents that I have on this case.”

“If they hadn’t pushed it through the grand jury without all the facts it would have been a lot different,” Wilson said.