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Court paperwork in Prince Georges County Maryland identifies Travis Phil Vazquez as a white male (Race: W; Sex: M) who lives at 4026 27th Avenue in Temple Hills Maryland, he is a mobile mechanic operating under the business name "Rescue Mobile" and he is tied to the November 24, 2024, incident at 4024 27th Avenue in Temple Hills, MD. Court paperwork list him as a "White" male. (Several neighbors describe him as a White Hispanic male).
A transcript generated from the video of the incident captures the escalation from a neighborhood dispute into an affray (legal term for a "fight") that turns violent. In the exchange, Vazquez not only eggs on a fight but also uses racist language.
The address of 4026 27th Avenue shows up throughout the case materials and the business listings for Rescue Mobile LLC. Public pages identify a "Travis" and specifically Travis Vazquez on professional profiles as running or representing that business at that address, which is the setting for the incident. That helps contextualize proximity and prior friction.
From the transcript:
What's up? (Travis Vazquez throws his hands up, welcoming Juan McLendon to a fight or affray.)
Come do all this, come on all over here. -Travis Vazquez
Whats up? Come on. Come on. Whats up? -Travis Vazquez
This is not de-escalation, it's an invitation.
The transcript notes that McLendon stops his leaf blower, crosses the street, and the two end up face-to-face before a fight breaks out. The narrative then records Vazquez taking McLendon to the ground, punching him repeatedly, and wrapping his arm around [McLendon's] neck, i.e., choking, strangling.
The same transcript shows Vazquez using an anti-Black slur while inciting the confrontation:
Nigga I am addressing you. -Travis Vazquez
What the **** ***** come do something. -Travis Vazquez
In a separate sworn grievance about the handling of the case, McLendon further reports that the State-held video shows him being choked; strangled; bit at by pit bull terriers; called a ***** by the alleged victim, Travis Vasqez, who is white.
The record contains direct evidence - both the transcript and a contemporaneous complaint - of racist language used by Vazquez during the incident.
McLendon's medical records from the same night document that he reported being assaulted by two neighbors with a baseball bat, including blows to his knees, groin, head, and back. While X-ray imaging was negative for acute intracranial injury, the ED documentation supports that he arrived in police custody reporting assault-related pain at a 10/10 level.
Independent of the fight, the Prince Georges County Animal Control Commission held a July 23, 2025, hearing involving Vazquez & Jasmine Williams-Luster. The Commission's Findings of Fact describe repeated complaints about their dogs running at large, barking, and approaching people (including a lawn service technician), and that their dogs had no active county pet license on file - a pattern that supports the broader context of neighborhood intimidation surrounding the address of 4026 27th Avenue.
Heres where the prosecutorial conduct becomes impossible to ignore.
1) Evidence dump + nolle prosequi of citizen-filed cases
According to McLendon's grievance:
The State produced the alleged victim's video on June 30, 2025, over seven months after the incident and on his second trial date of June 30, 2025, forcing a continuance.
Despite the video showing choking, dog trying to bite Mr. McLendon, and Vazquez calling him a *****, Assistant States Attorney Tanner J. Wise still moved to nolle prosequi all three citizen-filed applications of charges and even canceled McLendon's grand jury screening for the assault charges he filed against Vazquez.
2) Dump the case, then refile the same charges against McLendon
The State first nolle prossed the original District Court case (D-05-CR-24-018576) and then re-filed the same charges as D-05-CR-25-002111 on March 13, 2025, with McLendon accused of second-degree assault and reckless endangerment.
3) No prosecutor of record until the eve of trial
ASA Polly Berman did not even enter as Lead ASA in the Circuit Court case (C-16-CR-25-000762) until June 24, 2025, six days before the June 30th trial setting when the video was finally produced. The case was moved to the Circuit Court after Mr. McLendon prayed for a Jury Trial.
4) What the paperwork says about Vazquezs conduct
When McLendon filed applications of charges against Vazquez after seeing the State-held video, the document reads that
Vazquez:
Committed first- and second-degree assault
Recklessly endangered McLendon to wit: choking and strangling (the precise mechanism alleged)
In other words: the States own late-produced evidence (matches the charging language McLendon submitted against Vazquez. Yet those citizen-filed cases were nolle prossed, while mirror-image charges were re-pinned onto McLendon.
People throw the word racist around to score points. Thats not whats happening here. This is about verbatim language documented in the video and incident transcript and memorialized again in a bar-counsel grievance:
Nigga I am addressing you. -Travis Vazquez
What the **** ***** come do something. -Travis Vazquez
The court form identifying Vazquez's Race as "White" underlines what that slur is intended to do when deployed by him: attack a Black neighbor with dehumanizing language during a physical confrontation.
Public safety & intimidation: The Animal Control record establishes a broader pattern at Vazquez's address - dogs at large, aggressive encounters with neighbors and workers - creating a climate where escalation isn't an accident; it's a habit.
Selective prosecution: Despite video and transcript evidence of Vazquez's provocation, choking, strangling, and racist language, prosecutors shielded him by dismissing citizen-filed complaints, then refiling against the victim, McLendon, for the same incident.
Travis Vazquez is on record using anti-Black slurs during a dispute he helped ignite, then choking and strangling his neighbor during the ensuing fight. The paper trail exists in the transcript, charging forms, and sworn filings.
Maryland prosecutors appear to have protected Vazquez by killing the citizen-filed cases against him, while refiling the same charges against the victim, pushing the case past speedy-trial limits and only entering a lead prosecutor days before trial.
If the justice system actually followed its own rules, the evidence would be tested promptly, not buried until the eve of trial and the person on video provoking, using racist slurs, and choking a neighbor wouldn't be the one getting cover from the State. The Maryland State Attorney Office choices shield the complainant and grind down the accused a textbook "railroad" instead of testing the facts quickly and fairly before a jury.