This Video Speaks For Itself, No Words Needed. Tulsa Slave Catchers..

Ladonna Paris, 70, a great-grand­moth­er and Black woman in Tulsa, Oklahoma, filed a civ­il rights law­suit against the police, the city, and Mayor G.T. Bynum. Alleging that she was attacked and arrest­ed while she was hav­ing a men­tal health cri­sis, Paris said she was ter­ri­fied at the time of the October incident.

“I was mocked, taunt­ed, and bru­tal­ized,” Paris said dur­ing a Tuesday news con­fer­ence and that the video gave her a sur­re­al feel­ing. “It was like watch­ing some­body else, and I would say to myself when they were doing these things, ‘Oh poor Ladonna,’” Paris said.

The inci­dent took place at Phillips Theological Seminary, where Paris was attend­ing grad­u­ate school when wit­ness­es called 911 to report con­cerns over her men­tal state. Upon an ambu­lance arriv­ing, Paris drove to a near­by store where she locked her­self in a bath­room and refused to leave after police arrived, accord­ing to the lawsuit.

“Amid a bipo­lar man­ic episode, which includ­ed para­noia and delu­sions, Ms. Paris was afraid the offi­cers would kill her, so she locked her­self in the bath­room and would not come out,” the law­suit states. According to attor­ney Damario Solomon-Simmons, Officer Ronni Carrocci, who is white, is seen on police video bang­ing on the door to the bath­room where Paris was inside. “You want to get tased … I love my job,” Carroci said as she turned toward the camera.

“She’s so 85,” Carrioca lat­er, and still on video, said using the police code for a per­son need­ing men­tal health treat­ment, accord­ing to Solomon-Simmons.
“She (Carrioca) did all of this on video, know­ing she was on video,” Solomon-Simmons said. “She was so gid­dy about it; it was dis­gust­ing.” Being made aware of the law­suit, the city declined to com­ment on pend­ing lit­i­ga­tion. The law­suit was filed in Tulsa County District Court and alleges 14 civ­il rights vio­la­tions, includ­ing exces­sive use of force, ignor­ing Paris’ med­ical needs, ignor­ing train­ing, and assault.

Paris seeks jus­tice and account­abil­i­ty by the city and police for the offi­cers’ actions, and more than $75,000 in actu­al dam­ages and unspec­i­fied com­pen­sa­tion for puni­tive dam­ages and legal fees, accord­ing to Solomon-Simmons. “We want a judge to say this is not con­sti­tu­tion­al polic­ing; this is unac­cept­able,” Solomon-Simmons said. (Essence​.com)