King tells Richter that she is getting out. He walks toward her and asks her again to get back in the auto.
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Another officer who arrives at the scene tells the woman, 26-year-old Breaion King: “Ninety-nine percent of the time … it is the black community that is being violent”. King can be heard screaming. Why are you doing this to me?
Richter tells her to “stop resisting” and an altercation ensues.
“Let me ask you this”, Spradlin asks. “Do not touch me”. The officer then slammed her to the ground before pinning her to the hood of a police vehicle.
King broke down as she talked about the day last summer she was body-slammed by police.
But as the encounter escalated, the footage shows Richter reaching inside the vehicle and grabbing hold of King.
Two police officers in Austin, Texas are under investigation after a disturbing video surfaced of one of them slamming a woman to the ground.
In reference to a patrol officer’s statements on race recorded on video after King’s arrest: “I’m so heartened to know that (police union) are taken aback by that statement”.
While most comments will be posted if they are on-topic and not abusive, moderating decisions are subjective. “But for some reason, for some unusual reason, when people look like me, we’re more of a threat, and that means we get treated and thrown around as if we don’t matter”. “Violent Tendencies”, Spradlin said. Why are you touching me? That mindset-I can not denounce what he had to say any stronger. I’m not saying it’s true – not saying I can prove it or nothing.
“I’m about to Tase you”, Richter says.
Spradlin tells her it’s because the black community is known for being violent. “I want them to ask themselves: Am I approaching a 15 mile-per-hour speeding ticket like that?” “But I believe that, I’m not going to lie. But too many people in society look at things through the prism of their own circumstances and they can, want to deny that racism, prejudice, bias exists”, Acevedo said.
Richter’s arrest report states he acted quickly because he “was increasingly concerned with her uncooperative attitude” and “began reaching for the front passenger side of the vehicle”.
In the video, King is seen getting out of her auto after pulling into a nearby parking lot. “I literally didn’t understand what was happening”.
He says he doesn’t blame people who are afraid because he says some black people look “intimidating”.
“If you’ve wronged someone and you haven’t been reprimanded, then how do you know that you’re wrong?”
Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo announced Thursday that he has removed both Richter and Spradlin from the streets as the department conducts an internal review. The officer said she was driving 15 miles over the speed limit.
We follow the same standards for taste as the daily newspaper. But the chain of command at the time opted to handle the incident as a training issue and with counseling, he said.
When asked by a reporter at the news conference if he thought Spradlin’s comments were “racist”, Acevedo replied, “Yes”. “I believe that Caucasians has more supremacy over black people”. But King tells KVUE she was in fear for her life. Acevedo says department policy forbids him to punish officers for incidents that took place longer than six months prior, though the department is now investigating the incident. He added that both have been placed on paid administrative leave.
News reports the incident which happened past year is so bad that Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo apologized to Breaion King during a news conference and pledged a series of administrative investigations and increased training. King was charged with resisting arrest, but those charges were later dropped.
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Chief Acevedo stated that King didn’t file any complaint with the police department after the arrest, and he hadn’t been made aware of the traffic stop until this week, stating that he should have been alerted to the video.
