Grand Jury Clears Two White Texas Cops Who Brutally Beat A Black Woman Over An Unpaid Traffic Ticket
Two former Jasper, Texas police officers will not face criminal charges after they brutally assaulted a black woman who was in their custody last year. That incident prompted racial tension in the East Texas town.
The Beaumont Enterprise reported in November that a grand jury had cleared officers Ricky Grissom and Ryan Cunningham, who are white, for a violent encounter with a black woman named Keyarika Diggles inside the Jasper City Jail. Overhead cameras caught the officers grabbing Diggles by the hair, slamming her face onto a counter and pinning her to the floor, before dragging Diggles, by the feet, into a holding cell. According to her lawyers, Diggles spent hours in the dark “detox” cell before being strip-searched by police dispatcher Lindsey Davenport.
Along with the damning video footage, the case was troubling because Cunningham and Grissom had arrested Diggles at home that morning for nothing more than an unpaid traffic ticket. And the ticket wasn’t quite unpaid—the single mother of two had been paying down her debt in monthly installments. Even after those payments, she still owed $100 at the time Grissom and Cunningham knocked on her door—but it’s still not clear why they’d chosen to arrest her that day.
Footage of the incident was released last year:
Diggles settled a civil rights lawsuit against the city and the officers last December for $75,000.
It was less than a month after the beating that Jasper’s city council voted to fire Cunningham and Grissom.
H/T: Burnt Orange Report via LL’s Mod God @Mea_Mark.
Copyright 2014 Liberaland
By: Anomaly100
tiredoftea December 4th, 2014 at 20:52
Just another Beaumont TX. day.
tiredoftea December 4th, 2014 at 21:52
Just another Beaumont TX. day.
Warman1138 December 4th, 2014 at 21:21
It’s like open season for police to do what they want and they don’t care what they do. Because they’re righteous and citizens are (potential) criminals, especially those of color.
Imma Commenter December 5th, 2014 at 13:10
Or not. There’s no requirement that killings by cops get reported nationally. Also, many times they “fudge” things so the numbers fit what they want it to. And lastly, it would make sense because whites are a much higher % of the population…but since there’s no standard for reporting killings by cops no one really knows for sure.
Except the right winger Medved who knows his info isn’t correct but it doesn’t matter because RWNJs will spread that message anyway.
http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/aug/21/michael-medved/talk-show-host-police-kill-more-whites-blacks/
Warman1138 December 4th, 2014 at 22:21
It’s like open season for police to do what they want and they don’t care what they do. Because they’re righteous and citizens are (potential) criminals, especially those of color.
Imma Commenter December 5th, 2014 at 14:10
Or not. There’s no requirement that killings by cops get reported nationally. Also, many times they “fudge” things so the numbers fit what they want it to. And lastly, it would make sense because whites are a much higher % of the population…but since there’s no standard for reporting killings by cops no one really knows for sure.
Except the right winger Medved who knows his info isn’t correct but it doesn’t matter because RWNJs will spread that message anyway.
http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/aug/21/michael-medved/talk-show-host-police-kill-more-whites-blacks/
Valerie Henry December 4th, 2014 at 22:00
wow…all I gotta say….I can’t believe this, poor Lady was trying.
Valerie Henry December 4th, 2014 at 23:00
wow…all I gotta say….I can’t believe this, poor Lady was trying.
Radioman KC December 4th, 2014 at 22:03
Yup, clearly an assault case. Beware of stormtrooper cops with shaved heads. Need feds to go down and take THIS prosecutor out too! When are cops going to go to jail for this kinda stuff?
bahlers December 5th, 2014 at 00:32
Someone on here that supports the 2A? I never thought I’d see the day lol
Radioman KC December 5th, 2014 at 04:15
Just not walking around Target with it. After all, we know what happens to a black guy walking around Target with a toy gun! Gets jumped by the police.
Danny Wade December 8th, 2014 at 13:58
Tangentially, a shaven head is extremely comfortable and low maintenance.
Radioman KC December 8th, 2014 at 14:57
Well of course it is… but it has some consequences of image that may or may not be INTENDED. It also covers up middle aged baldness that’s seen as pretty nerdy. I hope you’re openminded enough to have figured out what I said without me saying it. If not, then you’re a pretty cut and dried (and shaved) kinda thinker!
Danny Wade December 8th, 2014 at 15:30
I really did mean it tangentially and wasn’t trying to derail. Also, my thinking is as hairy as Chewbacca.
Radioman KC December 8th, 2014 at 16:48
Is ‘tangentially’ today’s word from the high school paperbook, “30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary”?
Danny Wade December 8th, 2014 at 16:49
I learned it from listening to neurologists, which does indeed strengthen one’s vocabulary.
Radioman KC December 8th, 2014 at 16:51
Imagine what you could learn if you spent more time listening to gynecologists!
Danny Wade December 8th, 2014 at 17:06
Such as what it smells like in an OR when they use electrocautery to control bleeding during a hysterectomy? I’d pay to unlearn that :D
Radioman KC December 8th, 2014 at 17:15
I take it if you were in med school, you no longer are!
Luckily, we have people who can handle looking at and helping to repair their fellows’ insides. I’m not sure I could handle it, myself but I know people who can.
Radioman KC December 4th, 2014 at 23:03
Yup, clearly an assault case. Beware of stormtrooper cops with shaved heads. Need feds to go down and take THIS prosecutor out too! When are cops going to go to jail for this kinda stuff? Seems to me this prosecutor should be charged with conspiracy for failing to prosecute.
What we’ve been seeing on these many videos is EXACTLY why I support the 2nd amendment. When will the gun owners speak up….or do they hate blacks more than the idea of a police state?
bahlers December 5th, 2014 at 01:32
Someone on here that supports the 2A? I never thought I’d see the day lol
Radioman KC December 5th, 2014 at 05:15
Just not walking around Target with it. After all, we know what happens to a black guy walking around Target with a toy gun! Gets jumped by the police.
Danny Wade December 8th, 2014 at 14:58
Tangentially, a shaven head is extremely comfortable and low maintenance.
Radioman KC December 8th, 2014 at 15:57
Well of course it is… but it has some consequences of image that may or may not be INTENDED. It also covers up middle aged baldness that’s seen as pretty nerdy. I hope you’re openminded enough to have figured out what I said without me saying it. If not, then you’re a pretty cut and dried (and shaved) kinda thinker!
Danny Wade December 8th, 2014 at 16:30
I really did mean it tangentially and wasn’t trying to derail. Also, my thinking is as hairy as Chewbacca.
Radioman KC December 8th, 2014 at 17:48
Is ‘tangentially’ today’s word from the high school paperbook, “30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary”?
Danny Wade December 8th, 2014 at 17:49
I learned it from listening to neurologists, which does indeed strengthen one’s vocabulary.
Radioman KC December 8th, 2014 at 17:51
Imagine what you could learn if you spent more time listening to gynecologists!
Danny Wade December 8th, 2014 at 18:06
Such as what it smells like in an OR when they use electrocautery to control bleeding during a hysterectomy? I’d pay to unlearn that :D
Radioman KC December 8th, 2014 at 18:15
I take it if you were in med school, you no longer are!
Luckily, we have people who can handle looking at and helping to repair their fellows’ insides. I’m not sure I could handle it, myself but I know people who can.
searambler December 4th, 2014 at 22:38
It’s truly mind-boggling what cops can get away with these days. Literally everything they do is acceptable to these prosecutors and grand juries. Everything. Anything. Words fail me…..
searambler December 4th, 2014 at 23:38
It’s truly mind-boggling what cops can get away with these days. Literally everything they do is acceptable to these prosecutors and grand juries. Everything. Anything. Words fail me…..
Ed Eller December 4th, 2014 at 22:48
They should be boiled.
Ed Eller December 4th, 2014 at 23:48
They should be boiled.
Gayle Jolluck December 5th, 2014 at 01:42
fat.bastards
Gayle Jolluck December 5th, 2014 at 02:42
fat.bastards
secondlook December 5th, 2014 at 12:50
A poor woman slowly paying off a traffic fine and they think it’s OK to haul her in to begin with?
secondlook December 5th, 2014 at 13:50
A poor woman slowly paying off a traffic fine and they think it’s OK to haul her in to begin with?
OldLefty December 5th, 2014 at 13:15
This is why they say, “It’s expensive to be poor”.
How municipalities in St. Louis County, Mo., profit from poverty
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/09/03/how-st-louis-county-missouri-profits-from-poverty/
How segregation led to speed traps, traffic tickets and distrust outside St. Louis
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/11/26/how-segregation-led-to-speed-traps-traffic-tickets-and-distrust-outside-st-louis/
Meanwhile;
Prison bankers cash in on captive customers
Inmates’ families gouged by fees
http://www.publicintegrity.org/2014/09/30/15761/prison-bankers-cash-captive-customers
OldLefty December 5th, 2014 at 14:15
This is why they say, “It’s expensive to be poor”.
How municipalities in St. Louis County, Mo., profit from poverty
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/09/03/how-st-louis-county-missouri-profits-from-poverty/
How segregation led to speed traps, traffic tickets and distrust outside St. Louis
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/11/26/how-segregation-led-to-speed-traps-traffic-tickets-and-distrust-outside-st-louis/
Meanwhile;
Prison bankers cash in on captive customers
Inmates’ families gouged by fees
http://www.publicintegrity.org/2014/09/30/15761/prison-bankers-cash-captive-customers
Wallace Torbert December 5th, 2014 at 15:59
Skin head Neo Nazis
Wallace Torbert December 5th, 2014 at 16:59
Skin head Neo Nazis