“I can give you a really good – a really good idea why it might be that way”, Spradlin says.
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“Oh my God. Are you serious?”
As the investigation continues, King, who was studying for a master’s degree from Texas State University at the time of the arrest, is attempting to put the trauma behind her. He walks toward her and asks her again to get back in the auto.
He then drags her out of the auto on to the floor. “Put your feet back in the vehicle so I can close the door”, said Officer Bryan Richter during the 2015 arrest.
“I was afraid for my life, that I have this man pulling me out of my vehicle and I didn’t understand why, and it was pure fear, and I really wanted God to help me, I needed him to save me because I didn’t know what was going to happen”, King says.
King did not report the incident at the time and it did not receive attention until prosecutors flagged it in recent weeks, the paper said. “I can absolutely pull you over if you are already stopped, yes”.
Richter tells her to “stop resisting” and an altercation ensues. So for me, will I get better? “Don’t touch me. Do not touch me”.
Richter appears to forcibly pull King up and throw her down to the ground.
The incident happened in June 2015, but Ms. Grigg says her client was afraid to go forward with the case until now. Earlier that June, a McKinney police officer was caught on video throwing a 15-year-old girl to the ground and slamming her face in the dirt in response to calls of a rowdy pool party.
In the video, Austin police Officer Bryan Richter orders King to get out of her vehicle after he has stopped her for allegedly speeding. 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”. That officer went on to tell the elementary school teacher that whites are justifiably afraid because of black violence.
At another point, Spradlin admits that “some of them, due to their appearance and what not, some of them are very intimidating”. I’m not saying it’s true. I’m not saying I agree with it or nothing.
Spradlin tells her it’s because the black community is known for being violent. “And I don’t blame them”. “But I believe that, I’m not going to lie”. “The officer admitted on camera that they perceive black people, including black women, to have violent tendencies just purely by virtue of being black and their racist perceptions”. He didn’t know whether she had a weapon, he wrote.
“It’s given me the opportunity to be able to deal with it emotionally and mentally”, King says.
Officer Bryan Richter almost threw King into an adjacent truck in the parking lot of a Wendy’s fast food restaurant after pulling her over for going 15 miles per hour over the speed limit around lunchtime. “There’s a way to do this job, and that day, we did not approach it anywhere near the way we should’ve approached it”.
After the arrest Richter was given informal discipline and counseling, Acevedo said.
And an administrative investigation is underway to see why the case wasn’t sent to higher ups.
The video is surfacing amid heightened nationwide tension over police treatment of black people. Of Spradlin’s comments, Acevedo said they were “very disturbing” to me. “I believe that Caucasians has more supremacy over black people”.
“For those that think people of color don’t have grievances, I want you to watch and listen”, Acevedo said at a press conference Thursday. Acevedo quickly removed both officers from street patrol, and both are now facing new internal investigations, which he said will include both officers’ conduct in the year since the incident.
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A resisting arrest charge against King was later dropped. “Most of the time we are but it makes you wonder are there other things we’re not aware of”. AP is the largest and most trusted source of independent news and information.
