(OMG!) Texas police condemned after officers on horseback lead black suspect by rope

[icymist]

The Facebook picture showing Donald Neely being led by a rope

Police in Texas have apologised after photographs emerged of two white officers on horseback leading a black man down the street by a rope.

Donald Neely, 43, had been arrested on suspicion of trespassing in an office building in downtown Galveston, a coastal city of 50,000 people just outside Houston.

The officers attached a rope to the handcuffs behind his back, before leading him to a police staging area eight street blocks away.

A passerby took photographs which circulated on social media, leading to a widespread backlash against the police department. "This is 2019 and not 1819," said James Douglas, president of the Houston chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/08/06/texas-police-horseback-lead-black-suspect-rope/

[dalton99a]

1. They paraded him for EIGHT blocks.

[icymist]

3. For trespassing!

WTF!?!

[rampartc]

2. that may have been for the suspect's protection

this was also texas …….

[icymist]

4. Riiigght.

From the article:

Leon Phillips, president of the Galveston Coalition for Justice, said: "These are two white police officers on horseback, with a black man, walking him down the street with a rope tied to the handcuffs, and that's doesn't make sense, period.

"Stay there with him instead of humiliating him, and now you've humiliated the whole city of Galveston. And I do understand this, if it was a white man, I guarantee it would not have happened."

[42bambi]

5. NO. All they had to do was call for a patrol car and

place him in the back seat and take him to the station!

[dalton99a]

6. Exactly.

[pecosbob]

7. The county where I grew up

Not surprised. In recent decades Galveston has become a popular spring break destination for African-American college students. The local cops gear up like you would not believe. They patrol the beach and sometimes the street on horseback. I used to avoid East Beach and West Beach at Galveston and go to Freeport instead...because of the Galveston County cops.