An Atlanta couple has been reunited with their five children who were taken from them by Tennessee officials and placed in foster care for two months after a traffic stop found a few grams of marijuana in the car and hair samples reportedly indicated they did harder drugs.
The father of the children, Deonte Williams, says he believes racism played a part in the children being taken and the family’s civil rights have been violated. Now, thanks to a judge, his kids have been returned, and before he moves forward, he and the family are celebrating having them back.
His family had a party to welcome his five children back into their fold. The children had been in the Tennessee state foster care system after the ordeal disbanded the young family.
Williams says he and the mother of his children, Bianca Clayborne, were driving the kids to a funeral in Chicago when they were pulled over just after 9:30 a.m. on Feb. 17 in Coffee County in central Tennessee for allegedly having tinted windows and “traveling in the left lane while not actively passing,” according to citations issued to the couple.
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Tennessee Lookout reports that Williams and Clayborne said they were coming upon an Interstate 24 exit when a Tennessee Highway Patrol turned his police car lights on behind them. The couple told Lookout they took the exit and pulled over into a gas station, and then the officer ordered Williams out of the Dodge Durango they were traveling in and placed him in the back of the police car. Clayborne and the children were taken to the gas station store.
The family’s belongings were reportedly removed from the SUV, spread on the ground, and police dogs that arrived on the scene with more law enforcement personnel began a drug search. Ultimately, the police found rolled…
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