When Racist Cops Realize They’ve Been Arrested - Summary

Summary

The text is a transcript of a video that shows three examples of racist cops being caught on camera. The first example is of a cop who tried to plant marijuana in a black man's car and then arrested him for resisting arrest. The second example is of a black police graduate who was harassed and racially profiled by a police captain for parking in a handicap spot with a disabled veteran plate. The third example is of a black man who was eating lunch in his car and was detained and assaulted by two cops who claimed he matched the description of a burglary suspect. The video exposes the corruption and racism of some police officers and how they abuse their power and violate people's rights.

Facts

Here are the key facts extracted from the text:

1. Officer Kyle Erickson and his partner pulled over Jason Serrano and his friend for a broken tail light and claimed to smell marijuana in the car.
2. Erickson used excessive force to take down Serrano, who was in pain and needed an ambulance.
3. Erickson planted a small amount of marijuana in the cup holder of the car, where he had already searched multiple times.
4. Serrano was charged with marijuana possession, resisting arrest and obstructing governmental administration, but his charges were dropped after the body cam footage emerged.
5. Erickson was not charged with any wrongdoing.
6. A black police graduate was confronted by a police captain and another officer for parking in a handicap spot without displaying a permit, even though he had a disabled veteran plate.
7. The graduate refused to show his ID and told the officers to run his name through TCOLE, an agency that keeps track of every police officer in Texas.
8. The officers accused the graduate of being nervous and possibly having a gun, but they found nothing illegal in his car or on his person.
9. The graduate recorded the interaction himself and showed it to the city manager, who revealed that the captain was no longer working for the police department.
10. Montre Little was pulled over by a cop who claimed he matched the description of a burglary suspect and that he smelled marijuana in his car.
11. The cop confiscated Little's keys without his consent and used force to get him out of the car, threatening to use a taser on him.
12. Little was handcuffed and kept face down on the ground while more than a dozen cops arrived at the scene.
13. Little was cleared of the burglary charge but hit with a felony charge of resisting arrest and taken to jail.
14. Little filed a civil rights lawsuit against the arresting officers, but they were cleared of any wrongdoing by their own department.