A federal lawsuit was filed against law enforcement officers in a Mississippi county Monday as it was reported that they falsely target black people in a white-majority country for traffic stops and seizure of property whilst as well as issuing false witness reports.
The ACLU, the American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi, preferred a federal lawsuit against the sheriff of Mississipi in the sheriff's department in the Jackson suburb of Madison County. The lawsuit states that an unequal treatment was carried out by the Mississipi sheriff between blacks and whites in America. Moreover, a civilian board was requested to look into complaints filed against the department.
Ten black citizens -- men and women ages 27 to 62 -- are plaintiffs in the case. The plaintiffs say they were either searched or arrested by county sheriff's officials while heading to work, walking in …show more content…
She said one of the officers called her husband "Mr Cripple." She said one deputy said that he would detain them if they didn't make a false witness statement against another black person and gave in to his threats.
"I was terrified," Quinnetta Manning said. "I didn't know what to do. I didn't know what would happen to my children or I, so I agreed to write the statement."
She said her husband was forcibly pulled out of the house, down some stairs, and was put into a patrol car and beaten until he wrote a false witness statement.
"I am scared all the time that the sheriff's department will hurt me or family," Quinnetta Manning said. "I feel unsafe in my own home."
Paloma Wu, legal director for the ACLU of Mississippi, stated that the ACLU started the research for the lawsuit months ago. She said dozens of people were questioned, and the ACLU issued several public records requests with the sheriff's