when it should be protect and serve its really lie and attack, as this will show with video, clearly;
Richardson, TX — On the night Neco Bonham was pulled over by Richardson police, he had broken no laws and given cops zero reason to pull him over. Bonham — who has no criminal record — was polite and complied with all of the officer’s orders. Unfortunately, however, the officer who stopped him had a history of violence and corruption, so no amount of politeness and innocence was enough to protect this 18-year-old kid from police violence.
Though the stop originally took place in December 2018, body camera footage was only just released as part of a lawsuit filed against the two officers who stopped him and the city of Richardson. According to the lawsuit, Officer Parker Winn contrived a bogus stop to fish for drug activity based solely on the fact that Bonham was a “young Black man with a hoodie.”
Given the fact that black people account for 25.4% of all traffic stops in the city of Richardson while representing only 9% of the city’s population, this claim is certainly warranted.
“I believe the reason he pulled him over is he saw a young Black man driving a car,” Bonham’s attorney Damon Mathias said. “The thought process, which is completely illegitimate, is ‘I’m pulling over a young Black male in a hoodie and he probably has weed in the car, so I can do what I need to do.’”
After being pulled over, Bonham was compliant, polite and simply asked Winn why he was being stopped.
“May I ask why I’m getting stopped?” Bonham asked.
“You got a headlight out, back right —uhh — brake lights not working, and also your license plate light is out, so all three of those things,” Winn replied.........read and watch more......
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