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http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2018/04/outrage_growing_over_black_wom.html
This is the other side of the story
http://www.wkrg.com/news/mobile-cou...nto-saraland-waffle-house-incident/1134919870
Can't seem to embed the surveillance video but it's in the above link. Below is the video of the actual arrest. It looks like she purposely exposed herself so the cops won't touch her.
This is a great example of checking the facts against the witnesses' statements.
What do you think? was it the plastic utensil complaint or was it illegal alcohol and drunkenness?
The treatment of a 25-year-old black Mobile woman who was arrested early Sunday morning inside a Waffle House in Saraland by white Saraland Police officers is quickly driving outrage in Alabama and beyond.
Chikesia Clemons, whose arrest was captured on graphic video that is currently going viral on social media, will be speaking to members of the Mobile County NAACP Branch Sunday afternoon. Several community members held a sit-in protest Sunday afternoon in the parking lot of the Waffle House where the incident took place.
Three officers stand over Clemons as they pull on her arms and try to flip her over so she can be arrested. In the course of the altercation, her clothes are pulled down to reveal her breasts as white patrons continue to eat in the background.
"What are you doing?" Clemons asks at one point, to which an officer responds, "I'll break your arm, that's what I'm about to do."
She was ultimately arrested at about 2:45 a.m. and booked on charges of disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, according to Clemons-Howard, who said she paid Clemons's $1,000 bond Sunday morning.
Clemons asked for plastic utensils while placing an order at the Waffle House on Industrial Parkway in Saraland early Sunday morning, and was told by a female employee that plasticware costs 50 cents, according to Clemons-Howard.
When Clemons and Adams told the employee that they had not been charged for utensils when they purchased food from the same Waffle House the night before, the employee canceled the order, Clemons-Howard said. At that point Clemons asked for the contact information of the Waffle House district manager who oversees the Saraland location.
"They didn't even ask her to leave, she was waiting for them to give her the district manager's card so she could file a complaint on one of the waitresses," Clemons-Howard said. "When they went to go get the card, that's when the police showed up. The officer should've come in and said we need you to leave."
This is the other side of the story
http://www.wkrg.com/news/mobile-cou...nto-saraland-waffle-house-incident/1134919870
During a press conference Monday afternoon, Saraland Police share multiple angles of surveillance video from the night of the Waffle House incident.
Police say that Clemons appeared drunk. They said Clemons brought alcohol into the restaurant and was asked to remove it from the premises. Police shared a photo of her in jail using a garbage can in which to vomit.
During the press conference, Saraland Police say the Clemons did threaten "I can come back and shoot this place up if I need to."
Can't seem to embed the surveillance video but it's in the above link. Below is the video of the actual arrest. It looks like she purposely exposed herself so the cops won't touch her.
This is a great example of checking the facts against the witnesses' statements.
What do you think? was it the plastic utensil complaint or was it illegal alcohol and drunkenness?