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.
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160 responses to Grand Jury Clears Two White Texas Cops Who Brutally Beat A Black Woman Over An Unpaid Traffic Ticket
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Darcy Jackson December 31st, 2014 at 14:32
Rest assured that both cowards will be hired by unscrupulous police departments in the very near future not far from where all this happened.
Paula Denmon December 31st, 2014 at 19:17
Jasper is known for bigotry and violence towards minorities. . Even years ago when I grew up in East Texas.
Paula Denmon December 31st, 2014 at 20:17
Jasper is known for bigotry and violence towards minorities. . Even years ago when I grew up in East Texas.
Ceaz Amaze January 24th, 2015 at 12:33
you can clearly see they look like Criminals and they appear to be Violent as well as Horrible Husbands if at all married.they seem like the Abusive type , the Kind this Government would take in . also they look like Military PIGS , they are Savages they still act like they are from their Cave dwelling Days .
Ceaz Amaze January 24th, 2015 at 13:33
you can clearly see they look like Criminals and they appear to be Violent as well as Horrible Husbands if at all married.they seem like the Abusive type , the Kind this Government would take in . also they look like Military PIGS , they are Savages they still act like they are from their Cave dwelling Days .
Bunny_Power May 28th, 2015 at 00:42
for a traffic ticket? WTF?! Once you enter into a payment plan here your warrant for arrest is suspended. Regardless of this ….those arseholes need to be locked up, Im starting to believe that cops in the US are either fat old power crazed creeps or hyped up on steriods!!!