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Good grief! Was this written by a 2 year old? She was in the back of a patrol car and then ON THE GROUND... How did she get on the ground?
A lawsuit isn’t even referred to until the 7th sentence or paragraph....
Who’s brain dead here? Sign the writer up for a job in the obozo administration quick!
Was the girl in handcuffs? Not that it makes THAT much difference. It seems SO over the top that I must assume some details are missing.
Otherwise, all LEO involved need to be tried and prosecuted for felony homicide.
The events related in this story took place in Sherman, Texas, which is a town about fifty miles NNW from Dallas. It’s pretty close to the Oklahoma border.
Prosecute the cops. Period.
WOD has to go...
One of these days, one of these police “incedents” is going to blow up into another Rodney King Riot.
“Brian McClarin, a narcotics officer, had directed the traffic stop.”
So the traffic stop was just a means to stop the car. She was stopped for failure to signal on a lane change.
This is the reason i want to gut the traffic laws. They are abused over and over again to generate searches. Traffic laws are used to make sure that LEO can bypass probable cause. They use the traffic laws to make the initial stop, then fabricate a chain of incidents (k-9, furtive look, smell, obscure behavior, butt clenching, whatever) to take the incident further. You need to de-claw the city where you live. De-fund local law enforcement and clamp down on the border. That will never happen. The goal is to get everyone periodically checked through the national crime databases. That takes stops.
So the silly woman had coke on her. Now she is dead. What is the value delivered to society?
So drugs pour over the intentionally unsecured borders and citizens are killed, harassed, dragged into court for possession of a substance that should not even make it into the country.
for crying out loud, gets some cojones... i would not want this guy representing me... it is not strange... it is criminal... stop being so polite...
Some people become cops so that they can beat up and kill people without going to jail.
My home town. These things have happened up there from time to time. More has happened in the past that didn’t get reported. But for the most part, it’s a peaceful town with mostly good people ... with and without badges.
“To protect and serve” has become “To Judge & Punish”
They all think they are Judge Dredd
We should remember that some of these are allegations and it's only one side of the story.
End the WOD and this type of abuse will stop.
This was murder.
Then officers allegedly began hitting her and choking her with a flashlight to make her spit it out, and then tased her. It says she lost consciousness and was pronounced brain dead upon arrival at Texas Health Presbyterian - Wilson N Jones Hospital.
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A statement from the Sherman City Attorney, Brandon Shelby, says: "The actions of the Sherman Police Officers were investigated by the Texas Rangers and the findings were presented to a Grand Jury. No charges were filed and the officers were cleared."
“The thing that’s really strange about this is the stonewalling that I’ve received by the city about any information,” Surratt’s attorney
It’s not strange. It’s SOP. Give the cops time to get their stories straight. Then they can testilie all day long about how they didn’t really murder this woman.