Video shows what appears to be 4 to 5 guns pointed at 21-year-old Tye Anders as he lay in a front yard with his hands up.
In a statement, police claim “Anders failed to stop at a stop sign and then continued in his vehicle until he arrived at his grandmother’s home on Pine Street.”
When Anders exit the vehicle, instead of walking toward the officers he laid on the ground.
In the background, police can be heard telling Anders to listen to them with guns drawn. At the same time, family and friends are saying “he’s scared, you have guns on him. He’s black. Do y’all not see how many black people getting shot. He’s only 21, of course, he’s scared.”
It was then an elderly woman, Anders 90-year-old grandma, walked towards Anders and stood next to him.
When officers approached Anders to arrest him you can see an officer shoving the 90-year-old out the way. Seconds later, you can see her being violently taken down. You can hear family members in the background saying, “You pushed her.”
Justin Moore, a civil rights attorney from Dallas:
“We believe and maintain that this was a stop based on racial profiling and there was no traffic violation,” Moore said on the phone.
Moore says Anders was put in handcuffs and placed in the back of the arresting officer’s squad car, where he was then assaulted by another officer, multiple times in the face.
In a statement Moore writes, “Racial profiling and pretext stops have been at pandemic levels in this country for generations. This incident falls within this age-old trend of following black men and arresting them for fabricated reasons.”
Moore plans to hold a press conference Tuesday to share more of Anders side of the story.
Midland PD hasn’t released video footage of the alleged traffic stop.
Anders was arrested for allegedly evading arrest. He was taken to Midland County Jail and has since been released on bond.
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Pitiful! Midland PD didn’t have amy other tactical training to remove the elderly woman or of the way besides pushing get to the grown? Sickening.