‘I Will… Kill You’: West Virginia Police Chief Caught on Video Body Slamming Unarmed Woman Before Threatening to Shoot Her Forced to Resign

It was not exactly the crime of the century when a West Virginia police chief pulled a woman over for an expired registration and no visible inspection sticker before pulling a gun on her and threatening to kill her. Monongah Police Chief Nathan Lanham then smashed the woman’s car windows with a sledgehammer, prompting her to escape from the passenger’s side door, resulting in the police chief body slamming and arresting her on felony charges. But the chief’s aggressive actions, which were caught on video, have led to his resignation from the Monongah Police Department, and all charges were dismissed against the woman, Sarah Beth Delloma. But only after she spent five days in jail. ”He would have certainly been terminated if he had not tenured his resignation to the town,” Ryan Umina, an attorney for Monongah, told WDTV. The incident took place on Aug. 1 after Lanham pulled over the 49-year-old woman for the expired registration and no visible inspection sticker. Delloma said she pulled right over, but the chief refused to show her his badge or identify himself, which made her believe he was not a real cop. “She feared for her life,” attorney Joe Shaffer told WV...