Warning: foul language below, and in the video.
Raymond Glass last made the news six years ago when he was the victim of a stabbing outside a Pizza Hut on Palm Coast Parkway. His assailant, Larkland Harris, was convicted of aggravated battery and served almost four years in prison. One of the people who tended to Glass’s wounds immediately after the incident was Daniel Weaver, a Flagler County Sheriff’s deputy.
On Monday, Weaver was allegedly at the receiving end of Glass’s assaults as an apparent violation of an injunction by Glass escalated into a violent confrontation with Weaver and several other deputies and Bunnell Police Department officers as Glass sought to dramatize his arrest into a case of “police brutality” by slamming his head against the hood of a car and blaming the deputies while threatening them with murder and running the gamut of insults–racial, homophobic, anti-Semitic and anti-police.
Glass, 26, is a homeless man who in 2016 served a year in prison on charges of burglary and assaulting an officer.
Weaver was familiar with Glass’s history and knew he was on probation and not supposed to be in proximity of a woman Glass was near when the deputy saw him on U.S. 1. and East Palm Street in Bunnell. Weaver also had reports that Glass was living with the woman in a tent in the area, that the woman was 12 weeks pregnant with twins, and that Glass was preventing her from seeking medical treatment.
Glass was upset that Weaver called him over, claiming he was not near the woman. Weaver is disbelieving but courteous, having seen Glass walk with the woman side by side, then told him he’d be calling his probation officer. Glass insisted that he was not near the woman and was upset that he’s going to be arrested, though Weaver hadn’t said he would be (yet). When Glass asks to see the “camera footage” of him walking side by side with the woman, Weaver tells him to put his hands behind his back. The struggle begins. Glass refuses, saying the deputy can’t arrest him. “How can you arrest me?” he says. “I didn’t do nothing wrong.”
The deputy, now assisted by another law enforcement officer, repeatedly orders him to “stop resisting” before wrestling him to the ground and threatening to tase him if he doesn’t comply and put his hands behind his back. “Can’t tase me, I’ll have a lawsuit,” Glass yells. “You can’t tase me, police brutality!” As the other officer presses Glass’s face and upper body to the ground, Weaver tases him in his lower back. “Put this on camera! Police brutality!” Glass yells. “You’re already on camera,” Weaver tells him. “I’ve just been tased, I’ve just been tased!” The woman he was with is by then also taking video of the confrontation as Glass continues to repeat the same claims.
As the officers are gathering his belongings, Glass tells them to hand the woman his wallet. Weaver tells him what’s on him must go to the jail with him. That gets Glass angry again. “Tase me again, I’ll kick you in your shit,” he tells the deputy. “Tase me again, I dare you.” The obscenities then begin as the deputy tells him he’s under arrest for probation violation and resisting arrest. When Glass asks for Weaver’s name, Weaver tells him: “I was the one who saved your life when your guts were hanging out of you.” Glass calls him a “cracker,” among other insults–including anti-Semitic slurs. When he threatens the deputy’s life and the deputy tells him he’d gotten another charge added, Glass said: “Then I should do something to actually give you a reason to put a charge on me, huh?”
As two deputies walk him to a patrol car, Glass repeatedly taunts Weaver, telling him to “pull your taser now so I can kick you” before he slams his head on the roof of the patrol car, apparently in an attempt to make it look like brutality. The roof was dented. “I’m a crazy-assed motherfucking white boy, you think I care?” he says, then threatens to bite another deputy. That prompts the deputies to place a “spit mask” over his head. He keeps yelling and refusing to be searched. “Then you’re going to go on leg shackles, you understand?” a deputy warns. “I can still go ahead and fight with those on,” Glass replies, his insults now mixing racial slurs with insults of the law enforcement officers’ intelligence–and trying to argue particulars of the law with them.
When a deputy slices off the black and white bandana that knotted around his neck with a knife, Glass threatens murder against all the deputies surrounding him, and later wishes “corona” and death on them. He was not calmer once he was in the patrol car.
“Our deputies showed great restraint while dealing with this guy who was trying to fight them and continually threatened to kill them,” Sheriff Rick Staly said in a statement. “He even went so far as to bang his own head into the patrol car while screaming ‘police brutality.’ This case is a great example of why our deputies wear body cameras and why we are implementing dashboard cameras across our fleet of patrol vehicles. We have demonstrated transparency throughout my tenure and our well trained deputies have nothing to hide.” The sheriff said resisting arrest will still lead to jail, only with more charges.
Glass’s arrest for battery on an officer five years ago was not much different: he’d been accused of stealing another homeless person’s bicycle near the library, and reacted to a deputy’s attempts to investigate–then arrest–him with similar belligerence and violence, including repeated threats to kill deputies. He was convicted of grand theft and criminal mischief in 2014 but adjudication was withheld. He was convicted of shoplifting in 2014. When he was incarcerated on the burglary charge, awaiting trial, he was charged with beating another inmate but that charge was dropped.
He now faces eight charges, including three third-degree felonies. He’s being held on $25,000 bond on seven charges, and no bond on the probation-violation charge.
It was one of two confrontations resulting in arrest between sheriff’s deputies and a homeless man on Monday. The other took place in the Hammock, where Burt Boyd McGee, 56, a man with pronounced mental health issues (at one point he claimed both Donald Trump and Barack Obama owed him money), ended up arrested for providing a false name to deputies, then making threats against them and their families.
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He is lucky says
I’m actually surprised at you FlaglerLive. This person is homeless and obviously suffers from a degree of mental instability. Most likely he is mentally ill. The police have no idea how to deescalate this scernaio. They act out of anger and spite. The sherrif says he is lucky? Such a pitiful way to treat the mentally ill….add on a few more felony charges and put him in prison. That will make us all safer right?
Alisha says
No he not he is my husband and the police should never been involved our order is out of new York and we have been working on trying to get rid of it and they lied about Ray not helping me with my pregnancy we have been seeking help with it
Allyn S Feinstein says
I hope you will accept help and guidance. But, if you don’t, I hope authorities Child Welfare will be tasked with doing what they must and should to protect the welfare of your children.
Mark says
oh for God’s sake that’s what’s missing in the world mental case kids from outright mental case leftist drug-addled whackjobs…terrific…the cops will be arresting those in the not to distant future, bet on it LOL
Slang says
He’d clearly not mentally ill, bro. Stupid as fuck, yes. But he knew exactly what he was trying to do; make a case of police brutality against the police officers to either ruin their life or take a shit ton of money off them, or both. It was not in a million years going to work, as there was not an of unwarrented brutality from the officers. And his seeming unawareness of cameras.
Dhl says
Blame everybody else…
Glenn says
How are your children doing? I hope the father is still locked up! He’s absolutely crazy!
MikeM says
The police showed great restraint. I would not have. As far as I’m concerned he needed an old fashioned beat down. Maybe this maggot would think twice about his actions the next. Surely there will be a next time.
Stop coddling these violent scumbags. They get more emboldened by the day. If you feel sorry for them then move them into your home. Let’s see how long that lasts.
Rayray says
The dude is on probation that includes a no contact order with that woman. He violated that, he goes back to jail. Simple as that, he’s just pissed off that he got caught, so he’s acting up.
Bill says
Your a psychiatrist and have diagnosed this violent idiot after watching him act like a 6 year old for 20 minutes in a video? The police used great restraint after he cursed and threatened them during his tantrum. His history of violence is apparently well known by the authorities, this does not make him mentally ill, but it does make him an idiot. He’s 26 and homeless? Has he ever worked in his life? I think his parents have kicked him out of the basement having never worked a day in his life.
HJS says
We are all a little mentally ill. But don’t let that be an excuse for poor manners, bad behavior or criminal mischief. Glass is only “crazy” with people that he knows won’t actually give him the beating he deserves. I agree he doesn’t belong in jail.. he belongs under the jail.
NaImaStay says
Actually, yeah it will. Good suggestion.
Alisa Rabine says
You are absolutely right that Raymond suffers from a degree of mental instability He definitely has mental issues that need to be addressed. His impulsive behavior shows he cannot control his outbursts & anger! I give these officers credit for having to deal with this situation but it really is beyond what they can handle, confronting a mentally unstable person like Raymond. A professional should be there by their side to calm down & understand this person Instead of being against him negatively responding to a person with mental illness. Let him feel you are trying to help him! I mean he didn’t murder anyone. He was just quietly walking down the street with his girl. But with his uncontrollable anger there could be a murder in his future. Raymond definitely needs help before ending up in prison !
Good Times says
Why yes. Yes it will. And after he mouths off in prison and Bubba gives him a much deserving smackdown, it may know some sense into him and make him a better person.
Jess says
“The police have no idea how to deescalate this scernaio. They act out of anger and spite”
You are hysterical, but not in the funny way. The police never even raised their voices, they were incredibly patient. We need to move you, and all these “mentally ill,” into the same neighborhood. The rest of us would be better off without you and this moron.
Dhl says
Sure he is mentally ill… some of it most likely self-wrought. Homeless, but if you look at his arrest record, you’ll see his pattern of lawlessness began before he was an adult. He’s very handsome, and I’m sure he’s smart, smart enough to claim police brutality at every turn. Those officers did not abuse him. He is a nuisance. He needs seriously counseling and drug rehabilitation.
Jimbo99 says
Became too evident that this was about a 1/2 baked, con job for a civil lawsuit vs law enforcement. That said I don’t think the charges should be for violation of distance. She’s clearly all in on this scam too. Her wallet is on him, she’s making a phone video during all of this. While one feels for their homelessness situation, a scheme in an attempt to fabricate a lawsuit is rather weak. It’s apparent these 2 have their past together for him to be on a parole/probation where he’s restraining order not to be around her. At this point, it seems better to have the restraining order condition so the 2 can’t scheme & scam.
Steve says
Hes in his own private Idaho but just the same an ungrateful bastards he is . I dont suspect he will be free long with that attitude something will trigger this guy again.
Andrew says
He is still in jail.
Robin says
Hats off to the deputies for their professional interactions.
But I am left with the following:
First, these two cases underline the lack of mental health facilities and care for people who may be suffering from psychiatric illnesses.
Second: what about the woman who is pregnant with twins? What sort of prenatal care will she receive? What happens to the children when they are born?
Flagler County is getting another round of relief money. How can some of it be used to assist in providing services to these individuals?
Willy Boy says
The amount of public resources employed to adhere to the legal minutiae is outrageous.
Brian says
As usual, great jobs by our fantastic FCSO!
Mythoughts says
This man needs anger management courses. And sometime in jail to think about his erratic behavior.
Alisha says
This is bull shit our order protection is not through Florida they had no right arresting my man
Brad says
Dan Weaver is a great guy and Deputy. I had several Conversations with him when I was doing his termite inspections. He is the gold standard in what we want our Deputies to be. Thank you for your service Deputy Weaver. A tough job you have sir. Also I support better mental health counseling for all including our homeless. A tragic disease. Whether it is Veterans with PTSD or the general population with genetic or traumatic mental health diseases can do better to help them.
ASF says
God help the twins this woman is carrying!
Wow says
A case that could better be handled by mental health experts. No reason to subject the cops to that abuse. We fail both the police and the mentally ill here.
Outsider says
I would expect to see more of this as Flagler continues to roll out the red carpet for homeless people. We have them panhandling at every major intersection in Palm Coast, by the Belle Terre Publix, having sex on the sidewalk on at least one occasion and some harassing people at local convenience stores. One man asked me for a ride to Bunnell and when I told him no he began getting irate before asking a woman filling her tank for a ride as well with the same result. I can only imagine if my daughter was there by herself and had to put up with this behavior. Now we have a bigger shelter in Bunnell and the word gets out and as they say, “if you build it they will come.” Well, they are coming and being forced on to the citizens of Bunnell in particular.
amazed says
Send a social worker to the call instead, would love to see that on tape.
Alisha says
[The bigoted and inaccurate comment below would not normally be approved. But since the individual is directly involved in the matter the article reports, addresses law enforcement directly, and makes claims and threats that could potentially endanger the safety of law enforcement personnel in a future encounter, the comment is cleared for the record.–FL]
To everybody out there who knows my man Raymond Glass he is locked up for 10 different charges she didn’t do all those charges that the police tried saying all he did was vop broke and order protection that we have been trying to work on to get rid of Raymond Glass is not the monster but these police are trying to say so whatever you see on Google do not believe it he is the best man I could ever ask for and the police did police brutality they tased him after he was stabbed a few years back knowing he was stabbed a few years back and he can’t be tased that could harm him on the inside so the day when they do release him and if I find out that he gets any condition from being tased the law enforcement of bunnell Florida has a lawsuit on their hands I’m already trying to put one in as it is I hate the police they are pigs in my eyes and I hope a cop sees this cuz if a cop sees has I’m going to tell you right now you are f****** low life piece of f****** garbage arrest me you m*********** I dare you you can’t arrest me for freedom of speech if you see me and Ray walking down the street leave us alone we are not doing anything wrong and we do not need to get pulled over by your f****** stupid ass pig of a motherfuking face that is all I have to say and the next time a cop pulls me over they thought he was dead try me on for size I won’t go down without a fight they will have to shoot my ass
Really says
Cry a River wingnut. The reason why so many should not Procreate. .Cant take care of yourself what’s with bringing kids into an abusive relationship. GL Whatever
Concerned citizen says
So you say you hate the police well I have only one thing to say to you. If anything ever happens to you. Dont call the cops for help you get out of the situation by yourself. We need the police to protect us from people like you.
Andrew says
Keep talking like that and you will lose those kids in your belly before you even get tot see them. That isnt how someone getting ready to raise a couple of kids should be talking at all. Blaming the cops for doing their job because YOU cant figure out life is not cool whatsoever.
ASF says
PLEASE tell me that this woman is on some Child Welfare agency’s map!!! There should be follow-up! And the first part of that follow up should include random drug/TOX testing!
Andrew says
Those kids havent even been born yet and their life is already ruined. If she had any brains she would give them up for adoption the moment they come down the chute. If the county had any brains they would not let her have them. And what a great example this guy makes for a dad, if they are even his kids.
Alisa Rabine says
Please Alisha think of your life growing up with us and all the love we gave you We want our ALISHA back! Please go and ask for help You need help now more then ever bring more precious little babies into this world, your homeless life They won’t have a chance. You know you have always had a loving home & now you have chosen to be homeless. Ray is so lost I don’t believe he can be saved. But I do pray he will get the help he needs by not getting the love & nurturing as a child he deserved. No one cared then & no one cares now! So very sad! ALISHA I do love you and I always will Please ask for some help! You can get a good life and also be there for your babies They can be a part of your life you need to have a home to call your own! I wish I could hug & kiss you right now & tell you how much I love you! Oh & your daddy is hurting so bad over you! His heart is broken!
Andrew says
He just made Donut Operator’s Youtube channel yesterday. Lol
Thanks Raymond. This one was a classic
Dr Thomas says
Sad situation all around. I read online that when witnesses came to the scene when he was stabbed 5 years ago that his liver was literally hanging out and this officer basically saved his life. Kids these days dont know how to act in real life unless they are on Tiktok or switch