Peyton Gatewood- Black Woman’s Violent Arrest at Alabama Waffle House Was Justified, Police Say

An Alabama police department said Monday that three white police officers who threw a black woman onto the floor of a Waffle House during an arrest on Sunday, threatened to break her arm, placed a hand on her throat and exposed her breasts, had acted appropriately.

The officers, from the Saraland Police Department, were sharply criticized after a cellphone video of the confrontation was posted on Facebook, with some calling them racist and overly aggressive. The footage starts with one of the officers standing over the woman, Chikesia Clemons, and trying to place her right arm behind her back as she sits in a chair.

The video then skips ahead, picking up as two officers grab Ms. Clemons’s arms and shoulders and toss her onto the restaurant floor. “What are you doing,” Ms. Clemons yells at the officers, as they try to bend her arms behind her back.

“About to break your arm, that’s what I’m about to do,” an officer replies.

During the scuffle, Ms. Clemons’s  shirt comes undone, exposing her breasts in the middle of the restaurant. When she is handcuffed, an officer turns to her friend Canita Adams, who is recording the video, and says, “You want to come fix her clothes?”

The Police Department did not release the names of the officers but said that none of them would be disciplined.

my hot take: this makes me sick. Imagine the outrage if this were to have happened to a white woman. Clemons was a woman, vs three male officers. There was no need to throw her on the ground and EXPOSE HER BREAST?????? The white feminists would raise hell if it were a white woman, calling it sexual harassment. Apparently, there was nothing wrong with the arrest. If you wanna find a black person to attack, go to waffle house (which is exactly what happened in Nashville when a naked white guy open fired at another waffle house around the same time) Whenever I go to waffle house, I expect some old southern black lady to call me "sugar" and jam to the jukebox with me. Now I can't even get a waffle in a restaurant where I HAVE NEVER SEEN A WHITE EMPLOYEE without fear of someone coming in and doing something insane.