Jasper,
Texas a town with a history of racial unrest on Monday fired two white
police officers recently captured on video slamming the head of Keyarika
"Sha" Diggles, a black woman,
into a countertop and wrestling her to the ground. “The amount of force used
was abominable,” the woman's attorney, Cade Bernsen said. Diggles, 25, was
brought to the jail on May 5 for an unpaid fine. She was was on the phone with
her mother trying to arrange to get the $100 owed when cop Ricky Grissom cut
off the call.
There’s no audio on the video,
but Diggles and Grissom were apparently arguing when Cunningham comes in behind
Diggles and attempts to handcuff her. When she appears to raise her hand to be
cuffed, Cunningham grabs Diggles by the hair and slams her head into a
countertop. The officers wrestle Diggles to the ground before dragging her by
her ankles into a jail cell. “She got
her hair pulled out, broke a tooth, braces got knocked off … it was brutal,” the
lawyer. Diggles was charged with resisting arrest for arguing with the officers,
a charge dropped by he cops.
Ohatchee
Al. cop Walter Louis Lefroy has been charged with burglary. Lefroy, was arrested and charged May 30 with
third-degree burglary just a few hours after he resigned from the police force.
Former Ashville NC city Human
Resources Director Lisa J. Richmond is suing police officials and City Manager
Gary Jackson, alleging she was falsely arrested and maliciously prosecuted in a
case involving human resources department employees who misused their flexible
spending health care accounts.