In Disbelief Over Her Inability to Control or Communicate w/a Disfluent White TX Cop a Black Lady Called 911 for Help During a Traffic Stop but More Public Masters Arrived to Provide Mandatory Service
/MASTER SERVANT RELATIONS IN THE FREE RANGE: “I’m Black, he’s white, and we already know what the issue is.” [Really? Is Racism White Supremacy the only thing at play here?] From [HERE] A Fort Worth woman filed a lawsuit against the city after she was handcuffed for 17 minutes in the back of a police car during a traffic stop in which she says a Fort Worth police officer racially profiled her.
When Shamika Whitfield was pulled over in 2019, the officer who approached the driver’s side window was immediately aggressive, according to a lawsuit she filed against the city in federal court on May 17. She called 911 out of fear when the officer demanded she get out of the car after she informed him she had a legal handgun in the vehicle, the suit says.
“I cannot calm down because he is way too aggressive,” she told the 911 operator. “I’m Black, he’s white, and we already know what the issue is.”
The officer who pulled Whitfield over, Officer Thomas Shelton, was suspended for 30 days without pay for his actions during the traffic stop, according to disciplinary records. An internal affairs investigation concluded that Shelton failed to follow the department’s policies of de-escalation, professional conduct, handcuffing prisoners and traffic arrests.
The suit does not name Shelton or the police department as defendants, but says the city of Fort Worth is at fault for fostering an unofficial policy of excessive force within its police force. Whitfield also accuses the city of unlawful seizure because she was arrested and put into a police car.
In a response filed by the city of Fort Worth on May 28, the city denied any allegations of wrongdoing.
Whitfield has a valid concealed carry license, the lawsuit says. According to the lawsuit, an officer told her, “This is what happens when you say you have a gun in the car.”
The citation, which was the entire basis of the stop, was ultimately dismissed, according to the lawsuit.