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90-year-old grandmother tries to calm a tense confrontation between the Police and her grandson

2020-05-29T19:57:29.571Z


Police arrested a 21-year-old boy for allegedly missing a stop sign. In the midst of the confrontation, the 90-year-old grandmother came out to calm the tense situation between the police and ...


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(CNN) - When Police arrested a Texas man for an alleged traffic violation, the confrontation became tense, videos of the incident show.

Midland Police officers arrested Tye Anders, 21, on May 16 for missing a stop sign, the Police Department said in a statement.

What happened next left a family shaken, a young man on the ground and his grandmother trying to intervene in the tense confrontation that followed.

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Anders, who is black, had been driving in a way that raised suspicions, "making several extreme attempts to elude and avoid me," wrote a Midland Police officer in an affidavit obtained by KWES and other CNN-affiliated media outlets. CNN has filed a public records request to obtain the affidavit.

The Midland Police Department posted images on Facebook of an officer's dash camera video and a 36-minute body camera video of the events that occurred on May 22, six days after the incident. The video does not show the alleged traffic violation; Police say "it happened before the activation of the video system."

In the dash camera video, officers say Anders drove for two blocks after the patrol lights went on. Anders can then be seen entering the car driveway of her grandmother's house.

Anders was charged with evasion with a motorized vehicle while police attempted to stop him, according to a statement from the Midland Police.

Anders' attorney Justin Moore says his client was racially singled out and there was no justification for his arrest.

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Anders' grandmother tried to calm the situation

The Midland Police posted four versions of the body camera video on the department's Facebook page: full-length front-camera images, full-body camera images, full-length rear seat images, and a shortened video with Subtitle.

After Anders reaches the driveway to his grandmother's house, the police can be seen and heard in the body camera video asking Anders to get out of his car, but he initially refused. He stayed in the car for more than five minutes before leaving, according to video from the police body camera.

When Anders left the vehicle, an officer can be seen on video pulling out his gun and pointing it at him, according to images from the police body camera.

"I don't blame the officers for pulling out their weapons," said James A. Gagliano, a CNN police analyst. "When he (Anders) did not comply, they (the Police) had to suspect that there was something else there because he was running away from a fine for skipping a stop sign. That is not normal behavior. "

Police said officers asked Anders to walk toward them to be detained, but Anders refused and can be heard on the body video asking, "Why did you stop me?", Hands in the air.

Moments later, Anders can be seen in the body camera video falling to his knees to lie on the front lawn.

"We are not going to shoot you," an agent can be heard saying to Anders.

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Gagliano said Anders' arrest was the "exact antithesis" of the Floyd case.

"This was a case of Police officers who were not only doing their jobs," he said of Anders' arrest, "but did their best to be patient and let this happen when this young man put his hands around his waist and refused to comply. "

In the police video and in one of a passerby provided to CNN by Anders' lawyer, Anders yells over and over, "I'm scared, I'm scared, I'm scared" and "Drop your arms," ​​while lying face down on the Front yard parallel to the driveway where your car stopped.

As the confrontation between Anders and the Police continues, passersby can be heard gathering and yelling at both Anders and the Police.

"Dude, just get up, stand up, man," an agent can be heard saying to Anders. "All we need you to do is stand up."

At one point, Anders' 90-year-old grandmother appears on the Police body camera video in an attempt to calm the situation. The agents approached the old woman and, moments later, she seemed to fall on her grandson.

It is not clear from the images how the woman fell. The Midland Police say that "he apparently lost his balance and fell."

Moore claims that she was "forced to the ground by overly aggressive Midland Police officers."

At least five police cars and five other officers can be seen in the body camera video.

In the affidavit, the agent writes about the request for reinforcements when Anders refused to get out of his car. The agent asked for "additional units to help" when "members of the Anders family began driving to the scene and leaving the residence."

Accusations of racial singularity

In the viewer's video, a nearby woman also yells at officers: “He's scared. They all have pistols. " And then, “We are black. They shoot the blacks. "

Moore claims that the police arrested Anders without justification.

"Racial singularity and pretext stops have been at pandemic levels in this country for generations," Moore said in a statement. "This incident falls within this age-old trend of following black men and arresting them for fabricated reasons."

After helping the old woman up, the agents were able to arrest Anders. After being handcuffed and put in the back of a patrol, Moore claims that Anders was "hit multiple times in the face."

In the police body camera video, officers can be seen and heard telling Anders to put his legs in the car while explaining why they arrested him. However, Anders kicks out the door while yelling several times, "I didn't miss any stop signs."

Police say a sergeant grabbed Anders by the head to "put him to bed and control his movements" and used "physical force to pull his body (Anders') towards the vehicle. No blows were thrown. ”

- Konstantin Toropin and Jennifer Henderson of CNN contributed to this report.

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Source: cnnespanol

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