'A nightmare': why were an elderly black couple targeted in a shocking Texas police raid?

Forth Worth police have still not said why Nelda Price and her husband John, who died weeks later, were restrained in their pajamas

Alexandra Villarreal
Tue 8 Dec 2020 02.00 EST

While the police in Fort Worth, Texas, ransacked Nelda Price’s home, an officer directed her to put her hands together – as if she were praying – so he could restrain her with zip ties.

“I told him, ‘I am praying. Because I don’t understand why you’re here, and I don’t know what this is about,’” Nelda told the Guardian.

On 11 March, she and her husband John, both Black and in their late 60s, had been chatting in the dining room, dressed for bed, when a noise interrupted them. Nelda’s first instinct was to get up and investigate, but after John thought he heard gunshots, he pushed her to the floor.

By the time they looked up, Fort Worth police had already broken through their iron gate and were storming the front door, guns drawn. Without any explanation, the officers demanded that John and Nelda put their hands up, then took them outside for questioning.

More:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/08/fort-worth-texas-police-elderly-black-couple