Black Tulsa woman sues police for civil rights violations
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May 11, 2022
A civil rights lawsuit was filed Tuesday against Tulsa, Oklahoma, police officers, the city and Mayor G.T. Bynum by a Black woman who alleges she was attacked and arrested while she was having a mental health crisis.
Ladonna Paris, a 70-year-old great-grandmother said she was terrified at the time of the October incident.
"I was mocked, taunted and brutalized," Paris said during a Tuesday news conference and that the video gave her a surreal feeling.
"It was like watching somebody else and I would say to myself when they were doing these things, 'Oh poor Ladonna,'" Paris said.
The incident beg...
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