King tells the officer she believes police can be biased against black Americans.
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The incident happened in June 2015, but the violent footage has now been brought to light.
Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg told KVUE and the Austin American-Statesman that her office reviewed the dash camera video two weeks ago, and that prosecutors are reviewing Richter’s actions in the traffic stop.
The ten-minute video shows King leaving her vehicle when Richter approaches her and tells her to get back in the auto.
Acevedo said King didn’t file a complaint after the arrest and he didn’t know about the traffic stop until this week, saying his subordinates should have previously alerted him to the video.
“Let me ask you this”, Spradlin asks. When King asks the officer to hurry up, that’s when things seem to go awry.
He then is seen pulling King out and throwing her to the ground.
“I do”, she says.
King starts screaming and says, “No!”
“Stop resisting”, the officer says multiple times as a struggle ensues – barely visible on the video – in the doorway of the auto.
The officer eventually put handcuffs on King and placed her in the back of a patrol auto.
King then shouts, “No!”
“I’m getting up!” Watching a 112-pound woman slammed into the ground, tripped, lifted into the air, and slammed into the ground again, for her crime of speeding sure looks like what they call “excessive force”.
Richter gave King the instructions twice, when his attitude quickly shifted and he demanded that she get out of the auto.
When King manages to stand up, the officer body-slams her to the ground once more.
A resisting arrest charge against King was later dropped. One officer, Patrick Spradlin, who was also white, asked Ms King: “Why are so many people afraid of black people?”.
King asked the officer why people fear blacks.
“I’m about to tase you”, Richter says. But 99 percent of the time, when you hear about stuff like that, it’s the black community that’s being violent.
“Am I treating someone because they’re speeding to lunch like they just robbed the bank?” “There are some guys I look at”, he says.
He continued, “But yeah, some of them, due to their appearance and whatnot, some of them are very intimidating”. A North Miami police officer ultimately shot the man in the leg as he tried to help a young man with autism. However, the incident was never formally investigated by internal affairs.
“My heart was sickened and saddened when I first learned of this incident”, Acevedo said in a news conference Thursday. “But there is another piece, which has caused concerns as to our review process and the systems we have in place”.
After apologizing to King on Thursday, chief Avocado denounced his officer’s comments to reporters as racist, and concluded, “The lessons of APD is we still have work to do”.
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“I can tell you those comments are not consistent with the expectations, the mindset, that we want of our folks”, says Acevedo. “This is critical if we are to weed out bad officers and bad behavior”. She asks him why he is touching her, and she screams out, “Oh my God!”
