Grand Prairie Police Says There Was "No Racial Profiling": Black Man Was Stopped For No Reason & Then Disfigured
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4th Amendment Bullshit. Laws In & Of Themsleves Will Not Protect You; Laws Are Just Words on Paper; Laws Protect No One.
From [HERE] Attorney Lee Merritt is filing a lawsuit on behalf of a Black man who claims he's a victim of profiling and excessive force by the Grand Prairie Police Department that's left him permanently disfigured.
1) Rashan A. Barnes said on July 31, at about noon, he was in a parking lot near Carrier Parkway and Warrior Trail after shopping and visiting some friends at a barbershop when a Grand Prairie police officer stopped him and asked him for identification.
[STOP right here, the white media, in this case NBC, has ommitted the important fact that [at least with regard to white people] in order for the police to stop you the Supreme Court has ruled that police must have a reasonable articulable suspicion that there is criminal activity afoot and the person detained is involved in the activity. Cops cannot stop you and demand ID for no reason. Police may not act on on the basis of an inchoate and unparticularized suspicion or a hunch - there must be some specific articulable facts along with reasonable inferences from those facts to justify the intrusion.[MORE] "Stop and identify" statutes are statutory laws in the United States that authorize police to legally obtain the identification of someone whom they reasonably suspect of having committed a crime. If there is no reasonable suspicion that a crime has been committed, is being committed, or is about to be committed, an individual is not required to provide identification, even in "Stop and ID" states. [MORE] and [MORE]]
So on what basis, that is, what particularized facts, did this cop stop him for?
2) Barnes, who knew he had two outstanding misdemeanor warrants, admits to giving the officer his cousin's name instead of his own, his attorney said. As the officer verified the information, "Barnes attempted to end the encounter by running away from the officer," Merritt said.
The officer, Barnes' attorney said, shot him with a stun gun that "caused Barnes to immediately lose consciousness and sail into the air." His attorney said he landed on his face and arms, causing severe injuries to his nose, scalp, face and arms.
Paramedics were called, who then transferred Barnes to a nearby hospital. Since he was only wanted on misdemeanor warrants, he was released on his own recognizance.
Barnes' attorneys contend the officer did not have reasonable suspicion to stop and ask him for identification and that he did not appear to be involved in any crime.
"Mr. Barnes will be filing a formal complaint with Grand Prairie Internal Affairs and pursuing a Civil Rights lawsuit against the Grand Prairie Police Department," Merritt said.
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Obey US NGHRS. "To suggest that this was racial profiling is absurd, and I will not stand for it," said Grand Prairie Police Chief Steve Dye, who was visibly upset with the accusations as he and the NAACP addressed the media Wednesday afternoon. Dye is white.
Angela Luckey, the president of the Grand Prairie NAACP, said she reviewed dash camera video of the incident that has not been made public just yet and said the NAACP is backing the police officer's actions.
"I did not see an instance of excessive force being used. I saw the person in question by a Hispanic officer get up and flee after he provided a fake name to the police officer," Luckey said.
"We will come out for what is right. We are not going to side with a wrong side," she added. Stopped by skin color? Ms. Luckey is obviously putting the C in NAACP - for Confused negro preventing Black people from advancing or understanding their so-called 4th Amendment rights. Please go away NAACP.
Dye defended his officer who deployed her Taser during the late July arrest of Barnes.
"Mr. Barnes only has himself to blame. Don't lie to the police officer, don't run from the police officer, and then we won't have to use our conductive energy weapon to stop you," Dye said.
Barnes was wanted on two outstanding warrants at the time of his arrest and now faces two more charges for evading arrest and/or detention and failure to identify as a fugitive, according to police.
