Jonny+Gammage

==Jonny Gammage was an African American motorist and he died on October 12, 1995. Police said they stopped him for "driving erratically," he was in the Pittsburgh suburbs of Brentwood which was almost all-white at the time of his death. This happened in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.== ==Gammage was driving his cousins Jaguar. His cousin was NFL player Ray Seals. Seals had lent the car to Gammage because he was visiting from Syracuse and he had no car with him. Lt. Milton Mullholland from the Brentwood Police Department began following Gammage as he drove on State Route 51. He followed him a mile and a half until he was out of the county. Mulholland decided to stop Gammage because he continuously braked to slow his car. The car that Gammage was driving rapidly picked up speed and required to be braked when the speed of the car got to high.== ==Mullholland ran a computer check on Gammage's driver's license and also its registration. While this was happening Sgt. Keith Henderson of the Whitehall Police Department arrived where Gammage was pulled over. He saw Gammage talking on his cellular telephone in the vehicle. Henderson walked up to the car armed and Officer John Vojtas had a loud discussion with Gammage. this caused Gammage to exit the car with his cellphone and datebook in hand. Next, Vojtas knocked both items out of Gammages hands with his flashlight and then he repeatedly hit Gammage making him very frustrated. Both police officers attacked Gammage and took him to the ground. Mullholland also decided to help take the unarmed man to the ground. Officer Michael Albert of the Baldwin Police Department then came as the three officers had requested backup and hit Gammage's face, throat, neck and back with a baton. He was handcuffed and he was close to death and five white officers beat him so badly that within just seven minutes Jonny Gammage was dead. The death was said to be caused by the pressure in which the policemen caused by sitting on top of him.== ==Seals said, "A guy with no record, no nothing, they put him in his grave," Seals said. "I don't live in that city; I play football there. That cop is all over TV, acting like a hero. I feel sorry for the people. I don't hold it against the Steelers, but let them have Pittsburgh."==