🚨WATCH: Three Pasadena, #Texas cops lied to courts to justify a wrongful arrest.

Earlier this month, #TeamCRC sued the three police officers in this video for violating our client’s constitutional rights.

In February 2020, our client was driving home when police pulled him over for a traffic violation and asked him to participate in multiple field sobriety tests. He agreed. According to our Complaint, the officers concluded that our client was not intoxicated or impaired.

Our lawsuit claims that after they determined that our client should be released, Officer 3 began pressuring him to take a voluntary breath test. We also claim that when our client questioned the purpose of a breath test, Officer 3 abruptly directed Officer 1 — his junior partner — to just “take him to jail.”

According to our Complaint, the officers submitted false and misleading statements under oath to a magistrate, judge, and prosecutor in an effort to cover up the wrongful arrest.

Our client suffered through the trauma of two nights in jail, a forcible blood extraction and examination (which later reported a BAC below the legal limit), days of missed work and income, a slew of onerous and expensive pretrial supervision conditions, and the irreversible stress, humiliation, and fear inflicted by a felony prosecution. Four months after the arrest, the case was dismissed.

Instances like this are why we call to #defundthepolice and invest in holistic solutions for our communities. Police abuse their power, make our communities less safe, and are extremely difficult to hold accountable. #TreatTexansRight.

We are dedicated to holding police accountable and dismantling white supremacist systems. To share this video or learn more about our police accountability work, click here: https://civilrightscorps.org/our-work/