A new video has surfaced showing a Missouri woman getting pulled out of a vehicle and being stunned by white police officers with a Taser.
She and her legal team plan to file a federal excessive force lawsuit against Cape Girardeau City, Missouri, its officers, and the police chief.
Greenbelt, Missouri, native LaToya Parker has secured the Black Lawyers for Justice and attorneys Malik Shabazz and Reginald Greene to represent her after she alleged police violated her First Amendment rights when they “unlawfully and viciously attacked” her without cause.
The attorneys are asking that the police chief denounce the officer’s actions of excessive force.
In a video released to Atlanta Black Star, Parker shared her account of the July 23 incident at a local gas station that left her brutalized and scarred by members of the Cape Girardeau Police Department.
Parker said she arrived at the gas station on the 1100 block of North Sprigg Street unaware of any disturbance.
The Semissourian reported police were responding to a fight between Keliah Miles and Maishael Miles, attempting to disperse the crowd, when the two pulled up to the scene.
According to Parker’s account, the officers were “mishandling” a young man, and she decided to exercise her right to record.
Officers told her to “get back,” and despite trying to comply and stepping back as instructed, officers still assaulted her.
At this time, she says her memory became hazy as she was forcibly dragged out of her Jeep by her hair, arms, and neck by the police.
“I remember first just being tased in my chest which I have a really big burn and bruise on my chest from and after that, I just remember just my body being in shock and not being able to move my limbs,’ Parker recalled, adding, she was “tased multiple times in [her] butt and just down in personal areas.”
Parker says the officers slammed her and kneed her in the back even as she was incapacitated on…
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