Mar. 12–A 32-year-old Carrollton car dealer is suing the city of Carrollton in federal court for civil rights violations, saying that a police officer used excessive force against him a year ago as he tried to deliver a car. Also named in the lawsuit is David Tatom, a Carrollton police officer. Shomari Staten finally obtained the police car dashcam video of the incident after a Dallas County judge ordered that Carrollton release the video. Staten had requested the video under the state’s open records act, but Carrollton refused to turn it over. In the video, a white officer towers over Staten, who is black, and pulls him down to the ground as he slams him into another parked vehicle. Carrollton spokeswoman Sheri Chadwick said, “The City of Carrollton cannot comment on any issue once there is pending litigation.” Staten’s attorneys say their client was racially profiled by Carrollton police when they spotted him in a shopping center on an afternoon after he changed the license plates, as required by law, on a blue 1997 Geo Prizm. Staten was waiting to deliver the car to a client who was getting a cashier’s check at a nearby bank. Tatom and a black officer moved in to question Staten and his employee, who is black, about “stealing license plates,” according to the suit. Staten filed a complaint and an open records request to get the video of the incident. Three weeks later, when Staten went to check on the open records request, he was taken to a room and asked if he really …
Unfortunatly no one polices the police. Ya there is Internal Affairs big deal. Their funded through the cities just like the cops are. It’s like this the police arrest you the state prosacutes you appoints you an attorney the attorney gets paid through the state. Well figure it out from there.
@Fight4Privacy
WE NEED TOO, START GETTN ENVOLVED…
people stick together against this terrorism…
Reminds me of organized crime
@bradmhendrickson exactly
That cop would be working for pennies on the dollar…
Tired of all the ghetto disgusting anti government scum of the eartth tryin to get a free ride from the american soup kitchen. When a police officer is talking to you DONT get out of your car and when he is DETAINING you DONT smirk at him and go “O ya? I have a concealed weapons License!” why dont u just say DONT FUCK WITH ME PIG I HAVE A GUN IN MY BELT!!! fuckin trash. trash. trash.
@Fight4Privacy fucken internal affairs are the police of the police, however in the United states they are so backed up with work and shit that they dont get anything done. All the fucken police brutality need to stop, everytime theres a solid movment against it it gets shut down. Failed highschool bullies get to be cops and ruin ppls lives
@Fight4Privacy jason statham
Wow they have the evidence and still wont do shit about?
WOw, bullying, intimidation. Nazis would be proud. “Stop resisting” a.k.a. I feel like assaulting you for no reason and know the normal response is to resist so I’ll say it preemptively. Same thing happened to me and I didn’t resist. He said stop resisting and his partner said “he didn’t resist.” he gave him a scowl and let me go. If I was potentially “resisting” but was let go, what was I resisting? 95% of cops are crooked and the 5% that aren’t don’t get very far as cops.
Wow, they arrested him 3 weeks later when he tried to get information about the confrontation he had? Why didn’t they just write him a check right there? Some cops are such idiots.
@Nexus974 well said
Now thats Police Brutality!
Thanks for bringing this to my attention.
@Fight4Privacy WE THE PEOPLE will… The answer to 1984, is 1776!!!!!
FUCK U CARROLLTON!
UNBELIEVABLE! Ha even the D.A. knew it was Bullshit!
cops suck big mans dick and love to get fucked by men. I hope all of the prisoners in their jail goes and kills every one of them because of this video.
As a right wing racist extremist — which is what the progressuives call me — I totally support this honorable African-American gentleman and hope he moves to my neighborhood. The false left-right wing paradigm is over. There’s a second American revolution going on.
this guys a HERO…GET EM BUDDY….HOPE HE GETS A MILLION DOLLARS…HOPE THAT COP PULLS OVER A FUGITIVE WITH A 12 GAUGE!
This guy is a hero and instead of getting pissed off …I’m visualizing JUSTICE BEING SERVED ON BEHALF OF THIS CITIZEN OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
watch Police State 4 WAKE UP!
Yeah, hope cops watch these videos.
To the cops, guess what guys. Theres only 3 million of you, and 300 million americans.
Keep pushing us against the wall, and watch how we fucking retaliate.
DIRTY FUCKING PIG MAN THEY ALLWAYS GET AWAY WITH SHIT THAT IS SO UNHUMAN
Some cops have an IQ over 5, and some cops are just as smart as a bucket of sh#t. Some have intelligence, and still go south, when it comes to protecting citizens ! I was in the military,along with security, and know what a cilvil servants job consist of! First thing first , and that is to protect and serve. When you go outside of these boundaries, you break the law that you pledge to!
it will only get worst until people start fighting back; I would fight fire with fire before anyone let me pack up and leave. Give them something to fear and see how much there badge and gun helps, give the families the same terrior you receive and see how much they change; Good or bad the change wont come until we are all read to take them on in the streets when they are doing wrong. They only became this “powerful” because we let them. So how long are we going to let them be abusive to us?