Later, when King was being transported in a squad auto to jail for resisting arrest, Officer Patrick Spradlin went on a racist rant about black people having “violent tendencies” and how white people find black people to be “intimidating”.
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The June 15 incident involving Breaion King and two police officers happened during a traffic stop.
The woman in the video, Breaion King, an elementary school teacher, said Friday she feels the USA must come together after the newly released video of her 2015 arrest again raised nationwide tension over police treatment of black people.
“Okay ma’am you’re being pulled over right now, so I need you to take a seat back in the vehicle”, Richter says. Finally, the officer lifts her up and pushes her against the hood of his auto.
King said it is a citizen’s duty to speak out about injustice to set an example for the 2nd Graders she teaches. The video shows him almost throwing her into a nearby truck while arresting her. Richter can be heard ordering King to “stop resisting” as he orders her out of the vehicle, but the angle of the video doesn’t fully show what King was doing that qualifies as “resisting”.
“Honestly, I didn’t know what it was going to do, but I feared for my life”, King says. “Let me ask you this”.
“Oh my god”, she screams. “I get beat up for standing up with the Austin Justice Coalition”. “Don’t touch me. Do not touch me”.
King doesn’t close her vehicle door, and Richter said she continued to be “uncooperative”. As King is forced to the pavement she says, “Oh my God, why are you doing this to me?”
As she was about to exit her auto, one officer approached her and told her to sit back down in her vehicle. The black Texas teacher who was thrown to the ground by a white officer during the traffic stop, and then told by another white officer on the way to jail that blacks have ¿violent tendencies, ¿ said Friday, July 22, 2016, she is grateful the police chief has publicly apologized. “They have more rights”. The video shows her saying she believes Caucasians have more supremacy over black people. Austin police officer Bryan Richter approached and told her he’d pulled her over for speeding.
At another point, Spradlin admits that “some of them, due to their appearance and what not, some of them are very intimidating”. “I was ashamed and I was hurt because I didn’t think it would be me”. I’m not saying anything.
Spradlin tells her it’s because the black community is known for being violent.
“Am I treating someone because they’re speeding to lunch like they just robbed the bank? Black people tend to be violent and that’s why a lot of white people are afraid, and I don’t blame them”. “Violent tendencies. And I want you to think about that”, the officer responds in a recording from inside the police auto. That’s why a lot of white people are afraid.
“If you’ve wronged someone and you haven’t been reprimanded, then how do you know that you’re wrong?” He said his “heart was sickened and saddened” by the arrest. On that day we did not approach it anywhere near where we should have approached it. “Corrective action was taken” says Acevedo, including “training and counseling”. However, the incident was never formally investigated by internal affairs.
When asked by a reporter at the news conference if he thought Spradlin’s comments were “racist”, Acevedo replied, “Yes”. Our Stef Manisero shows us why it’s a second, more peaceful video that’s adding fuel to the controversy.
The officers of the incident are reportedly under investigation but are still actively working at “desk jobs”.
According to Acevedo, he didn’t learn of the videos until Tuesday (07-19-16), when a prosecutor called him after receiving inquiries from the Austin American-Statesman newspaper. While being pinned to the ground King says she’s trying but he’s not giving enough time to comply.
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‘The straw that really breaks the camel’s back, that makes it even more frustrating, is that after my client was shot, they handcuffed him and left him on the hot Miami summer pavement for 20 minutes while fire rescue came and while he was bleeding out, ‘ Kinsey’s attorney Hilton Napoleon told The Washington Post, saying he hoped to negotiate a settlement with the police department. Listed phone numbers for the officers could not immediately be found. Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg said her office viewed the dash camera video two weeks ago and has asked APD’s Special Investigations Unit to assist them.
