Police Abuse Man for Refusing to Give False Statement

Mississippi police forced their way into the Manning home, demanding they write a witness statement about an alleged crime they didn’t witness or go to jail. Terrified for her family’s safety, Mrs. Manning wrote what they demanded while her husband—a man with a disability who uses a cane—was dragged down stairs and beaten in a patrol car until he, too, wrote a false statement.

In Mississippi, the Madison County Sheriff’s Department is systematically and illegally targeting Black people. Deputies from the Madison County Sheriff’s Department stop, search, and arrest innocent people day and night when they are doing nothing more than walking down a street, going home, or sitting in their own living rooms. This is racial profiling on a massive scale, it’s unconstitutional, and we’re suing.

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