A Black pastor who was arrested while watering his out-of-town neighbor’s flowers in May has filed a federal lawsuit against the three cops who cuffed him and the Alabama town of Childersburg on grounds that the incident violated his civil rights and caused him extreme emotional distress.
A Black pastor who was arrested while watering his out-of-town neighbor’s flowers in May has filed a federal lawsuit against the three cops who cuffed him and the Alabama town of Childersburg on grounds that the incident violated his civil rights and caused him extreme emotional distress.
Michael Jennings wasn t breaking any laws or doing anything that was obviously suspicious; the Black minister was simply watering the flowers of a neighbor who was out of town.