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Black Waller County Constable Accuses Fellow Officers of Racial Profiling
The Waller County constable is seeking $50 million on claims he was racially profiled by deputy constables who pulled him over in his service vehicle and handcuffed him at gunpoint.A Black law enforcement official in Texas filed suit late Monday seeking $50 million on claims he was racially profiled by deputy constables who pulled him over in his service vehicle and handcuffed him at gunpoint.
Herschel Smith, an elected Waller County constable, says he was in his uniform heading home in his police vehicle on Beltway 8 in Houston after working a side job on Aug. 18 when he flashed his lights at a speeding driver "in an attempt to get the unknown driver to slow down and stop driving recklessly" and the driver slowed down.
Minutes later, Smith claims, four police vehicles were on his bumper with sirens and lights on. He pulled over and four uniformed officers approached him with their guns trained on him.
Smith says he was alarmed because from his law enforcement training he knew the officers, by so many pursuing him and pulling out their guns, were making a felony stop, meaning they believed he had committed a serious crime.
Read more: https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/texas/2020/10/20/384354/black-waller-county-constable-accuses-fellow-officers-of-racial-profiling/
