Pastor Assaulted While Watering Flowers Files Lawsuit: Although Cops Can Request ID If Its Reasonable to Believe Crime is Taking Place, When Cops Demanded ID the Only Sign of Crime was His Blackness
/From [HERE] The Black pastor surveilled, assaulted and detained by disfluent, really stupid, white cops after they demanded ID while he was watering flowers filed a federal lawsuit against the town of Childersburg. The suit alleges the actions of Officers Christopher Smith and Justin Gable, Sgt. Jeremy Brooks and the city violated constitutional rights that protect him from unlawful arrest and guarantee free speech.
The lawsuit also says Jennings suffered emotional and psychological distress during the arrest and its aftermath, resulting in PTSD symptoms such as anxiety, depression, sleeplessness, nightmares and flashbacks.
Jennings, 56, was watering his neighbor’s roses when he was arrested on that Sunday in May, after a white neighbor called 911 and said a “younger Black male” and gold SUV were at a house while the owners — who are friends of Jennings and had asked him to watch their home — were away.
Although there were no signs indicating an unlawful entry, a break in or that a theft was taking place or that any other crime was taking place, the neuropeon authoritarians suspected him of a crime apparently because he was watering flowers. The video speaks for itself.