Roderick Antoine Walker, 26, of Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, United States has been transferred from the Clayton County Jail in Jonesboro, Clayton County, Georgia to the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta. He and his family are represented by Sean Williams of the Cochran Law Firm in Atlanta.
On September 11, 2023, Walker was arrested outside the Georgia Department of Public Health Vital Records building in College Park, Georgia by two Clayton County Sheriff’s Office deputies. The building is near near the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta.
Walker had a warrant out of Fulton County for cruelty to children and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and a warrant out of Hapeville, Fulton County for failure to appear at a court hearing. The two deputies were filmed pinning the Atlanta man on the ground and the video went viral.
After returning a rental car that day, Walker and his girlfriend Janita Davis took a ride-share vehicle to go back home for $10 along with his stepson, 5, and the couple’s 4-month-old child. Before reaching home, the vehicle was pulled over by the deputies in an unmarked car for having a broken taillight.
When the deputies asked to see Walker’s identification card, he said he did not have it with him. They became upset when he asked why they needed the ID considering that he was not the driver, which led to an altercation.
Minutes later, the deputies ordered Walker out of the vehicle. One of the deputies who pinned him to the concrete punched him in the head at least nine times and yelled, “He bit me!”
“I’m going to die,” Walker cried out. “I can’t breathe!”
Walker’s stepson also stepped out of the vehicle but Davis asked him to go back inside. Witnessing the brutal attack from the back seat of the car, the child screamed, “Daddy!”
“Don’t kill him,” Davis asked the deputies. A third deputy, who joined to help handcuff Walker, asked her “to get in the car” before she ends up “in handcuffs.”
Walker’s face was bleeding while he was handcuffed and being led away by the deputies but no fractures were detected when he received medical treatment, which included X-rays. He was charged with two counts of battery and two counts of obstructing or hindering law enforcement officers.
“I just want my son home because he was beaten real bad,” ABC News quoted Walker’s mother Tywauna C. Walker as saying during a news conference in front of the Clayton County Jail on September 12, 2020. “He did nothing wrong.”
On the same day, Roderick met with another lawyer named Torris Butterfield, who is working to secure a bond for release. On September 14, 2020, he was booked into the Fulton County Jail.
Roderick is 6’2″ and weighs 180lbs. He has four children.
Aside from Atlanta, Roderick has lived in other parts of Georgia including Stone Mountain. On November 20, 2016, a relative, then 7, was shot in the leg n Atlanta because of Walker’s reckless behavior.
In August 2018, Roderick was sentenced to a 20-year probation with the first six months to be served in a probation detention center. In September 2019, he violated the terms of his probation by failing to tell his probation officer he had moved.
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