From [HERE] and [HERE] Caught on video deploying a Taser against a Black mother in a wheelchair simply recording her pregnant daughter’s arrest, several deputies from the Harris County Sheriff’s Office are under an internal affairs investigation for needlessly attacking the disabled woman. Instead of treating her like a human being, the deputies can clearly be seen grabbing her cellphone and throwing it away before tasing the disabled woman until she collapsed out of her wheelchair.
Last Wednesday, 36-year-old Sheketha Holman arrived at a Valero gas station in northwest Houston after discovering her daughter was under arrest for marijuana possession and criminal mischief. A surveillance camera recorded Holman in her wheelchair as she filmed her daughter’s arrest with her cellphone camera.
When she arrived at the gas station, her daughter was being arrested.
“They were grabbing her handcuffs and ramming her into the back of the car. I was like, ‘Hey! Hey! Don’t do that! She’s pregnant!," Holman said.
“I was taking pictures of them, and he was like, ‘Just leave the property, you’re trespassing. They don’t want you here,’” Holman told KHOU.
“I was like, ‘I’m trying to leave. I can’t take off running, but I’m trying to leave,’” Holman recalled. “‘Oh, you’re resisting?’ I was like, ‘I’m not resisting.’ That’s when I had my hands up like this.”
Despite the fact that Holman appears non-threatening in the video, a white deputy can be seen abruptly snatching the phone out her hand before immediately tossing it away. Instead of using her cellphone footage as potential evidence against Holman or her daughter, the white deputy appears to be obstructing justice by attempting to destroy evidence during an open investigation.
She said she could not put her hands behind her back. In the surveillance video, officers clearly struggle to keep her arms pinned, before one deputy shocks her with a Taser.
“When I came to, I was like face down or whatever, and my leg was underneath me," Holamn said. "They still was Tasing me, man. That’s wrong."
Tuesday, she was in court with a message: She wants the officers involved disciplined.
“You feel like you can wear your badge and do whatever you want to to people? No. We have a voice,” Holman said. [MORE]