Texas female teacher slammed to ground - White officer claims blacks have 'violent tendencies'

'Why are so many people afraid of black people?'

A disturbing video was recently released over a year after a white Texas officer slams a black second-grade teacher to the pavement.

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - The video was recorded on the officer Brian Richtor's dash cam. He pulled second-grade teacher Breaion King over and told her to get back in the car.

She went into her vehicle but left the door open. He told her to move her feet so he could close the door and when she didn't move her feet, he demanded she get out of the vehicle.

Rather than letting her stand on her own, he reached into her vehicle and attempted to pull her out. Her fear was audible in the camera, which caught her voice rising and saying, "I'm getting out. Don't touch me. Do not touch me."

Officer Richter then pulls her from the vehicle, spins her around and knocks her to the ground.

She cries, "Oh my God ... Why are you doing this to me?"

He keeps telling her to put her hands behind her back and once they are, she stands and he kicks at her shin then throws her to the ground again.

After they struggle for a moment, she calms down and tells him to get off of her so she can get down like he repeatedly tells her to.

He refuses and she tries to explain she was trying to get down. Finally, the officer lifts her up and pushes her against the hood of his car.

It is at this time that a second officer, officer Patrick Spradlin, appears. King says, "I need a black police."

When one of the officers asks why, she says, "Because you're full of bull****."

In the back of Spradlin's police vehicle, the officer asks, "Why are so many people afraid of black people?"

"That's what I'm trying to figure out," she responds.

He says, "I can give you a really good idea of why it might be that way."

"Why?" she asks.

"Violent tendencies. I'm not saying anything, I'm not saying it's true - I'm not saying that I can prove it or nothing. But 99 percent of the time, when you hear about stuff like that, it is the black community that's being violent," officer Spardlin said. "That's why a lot of the white people are afraid and I don't blame them."

Later, Spradlin says, "[S]ome of them, because of their appearance and whatnot, some of them are very intimidating."

According to NCB News, Police Chief Art Acevedo apologized to King during a news conference.

He said his "heart was sickened and saddened" by the arrest then released a public apology.

"I'm sorry that on the day that you were stopped for going 15 miles per hour, you were approached in a manner and treated in a manner that is not consistent with the expectations of this police chief, of most of the officers of this police department, and most importantly I think of all of us as human beings."

Acevedo claims he was unaware of the events until Tuesday, when a prosecutor called him.

Both officers were immediately removed from duty and are undergoing administrative reviews. A criminal investigation is currently underway and details of the case have yet to be revealed.

Acevedo reported Richter was subjected to informal discipline and counseling, then shared the case was never brought to his attention, prompting an administration investigation to see why the case was never reported.

"There's a problem that this was not kicked up to our level back in '15," he stated.

The department is working on a better plan to track arrests, particularly cases of resisting arrest and offenses such as public intoxication, just to ensure officers are acting appropriately.

Of the unacceptable conversation between Spradlin and King, Acevedo said: "When you look at it there's a guy that's trying to have a conversation - I don't know if he's trying to be a social scientist, so I can't get into his heart at this point," then admitted King's arrest was "an incident that should never have occurred."

Rather than burying the video, Acevedo has encouraged other officers to view it.

"I want them to ask themselves: Am I approaching a 15 mile-per-hour speeding ticket like that? Am I treating somebody because they're speeding to lunch like they just robbed a bank? Is that how I want me loved one treated when they're in a hurry?"

Acevedo, who is Hispanic, called people to stop and think for a moment.

"For those that think life is perfect for people of color, I want you to listen to that conversation and tell me we don't have social issues in this nation. Issues of bias. Issues of racism. Issues of people being looked at different because of their color."

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