Black teacher ‘grateful’ for apology over arrest

Police Dashcam Video Shows Violent Arrest Of Austin School Teacher Breaion King. This moment arrives after one of them, Officer Bryan Richter, violently slams her into the ground.

Once she is placed in the police auto, a third officer walks up and tells them that a bystander had filmed the interaction. She does but apparently doesn’t close the door. “Is that how I want me loved one treated when they’re in a hurry?” He said he could and said he believed she only pulled into the parking lot to avoid being pulled over since she didn’t have her wallet with her to pay for a meal. She questions whether he can ticket her after she is already parked.

A black Texas teacher thrown to the ground by a white officer during a traffic stop, and then told by another white officer on the way to jail that blacks have “violent tendencies”, said Friday she is grateful the police chief has publicly apologized. He didn’t know whether she had a weapon, he wrote. King says, “I need a black police”. Let me get out. “Do not touch me”.

Prosecutors have also opened a criminal investigation against the officer who threw King to the ground. Richter instructed her to get back in her vehicle when she replied: “Are you serious?”

A resisting arrest charge against King was later dropped, KEYE-TV reports.

“Stop resisting!” Richter yells. He had finished handcuffing her as another officer arrives on the scene.

Police Chief Acevedo has made it clear that he has no patience for his officers treating citizens in such a manner – and that he believes it is an issue of race in the country.

Reports say the reason why the footage is only being released now is that King never filed a complaint.

Court documents said the struggle lasted for 90 seconds. The angle of the video doesn’t fully show King while she is inside the auto.

She sits down in the driver’s seat.

Another officer, identified as Patrick Spradlin, came to assist his colleague in the arrest. They talk about racism.

After she responded to him, the officer asks her to step out of the auto. He says he is “highly disturbed and disappointed” by her treatment and called Spradlin’s comments racist. “Most of us could say absolutely not”, Mann said. He asks King why “so many people are afraid of black people”. “That’s what I want to figure out because I’m not a bad black person”, King answers.

“I’m not saying that I can prove it or nothing, but 99 percent of the time when you hear about stuff like that, it is the black community that’s being violent”, Spradlin says.

The police chief said he has requested additional Justice Department training for his officers to avoid bias and profiling among the ranks.

“We recognize how incidents such as these can divide our city and cause mistrust”, the statement said. “We have met with community stakeholders and begun a dialogue”. We had some really heartfelt conversations…

King is now frightened of the police. Richter tells her she is being stopped for speeding. She is represented by Erica Grigg. Video of the arrest was first obtained by local media outlets KVUE and the Austin American-Statesman, which posted the video Thursday. After watching the video, the Chief says he was taken aback by his officers’ mentality. “She doesn’t trust the police any more after this and so I think that’s what took her so long to come forward”.