Marvin Scott III died in police custody on March 14 (Collin County Sheriff s Office)
As per the Dallas Morning News, footage of the confrontation, which already had been shared widely online, gained new life on Saturday, May 8 when the far-right began sharing the clip online, casting the motorist as a victim who had a gun pointed at him during the incident.
Plano police issued a statement quashing rumors around the incident. “It has also been reported over social media platforms that a protestor pointed a firearm at the male subject that confronted the crowd. These reports are false. A protestor pointed an electronic control device at the male subject in an effort to protect the female from being further assaulted by the male. Officers on scene confirmed that the device was not a firearm. Electronic control devices can be purchased without a permit or license and the person who pointed the device did not commit a criminal offense by doing so. We have included a photo of the perso
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A Plano mother is pushing for a hate crime investigation after she says her 13-year-old son was the victim of racist bullying and abuse from fellow students at his middle school.
Summer Smith reported the incident to administrators at Haggard Middle School after she says she learned that her son, who is Black, was called racist slurs, beaten and made to drink his white classmates’ urine during a recent sleepover.
Smith posted videos, which have since gone viral on social media, of the alleged abuse. A petition in support of her son has garnered tens of thousands of signatures, and she has raised more than $10,000 on GoFundMe to help her son get therapy.
At least one officer’s camera captured the seven-minute encounter. It is unclear if other officers had their cameras on.
“Hey man,” the unidentified Plano police officer says to Reese in an interaction captured on body camera. “You trying to get home?”
The video was posted on the police department s Facebook page after several inquiries.
Temperatures were in the teens that night at around 10:45 p.m.
Someone called police for a welfare check. ’ describing a black man wearing a T-shirt, stumbling and walking on Hedgcoxe Road in North Plano, police said.
Offices arrived and saw Reese walking down the road.
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