A disturbing video cam footage has sparked protests from the public after a black man was seen begging police officers to give his daughter back whose ashes were present in a small urn while the police continued to mock him and accuse him of carrying hard drugs in the urn.
Black Man Sues Illinois Police Who Accused Him Of Possessing Drugs - It Was His Daughter's Ashes
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Samantha in
Heartbreaking
On 25th May 2021
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An absolutely disgraceful incident where police stopped a grieving father at a traffic stop and accused him of possessing a container full of drugs while it was his daughter's ashes.
Dartavius Barnes was pulled over in Springfield, Illinois, last April for allegedly speeding and failing to stop at a stop sign.
However, when police found a small urn in the car, they assumed it contained hard drugs.
Springfield Police bodycam footage
Bodycam footage shows the grieving father cooperated with the officers' in searching his car and even admitted that he has marijuana in his car but that was it.
The police then found an urn in the car, and instead of understanding the situation, they assumed it contained harder drugs.
Springfield Police bodycam footage
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“I checked for cocaine, but it looks like it’s probably molly,” one officer can be heard saying in the footage.
Eventually, the cops told Barnes that they found a container full of meth or ecstasy. They showed him the urn and he lost it.
“Give me that, bro. That’s my daughter,” he told them. “Please give me my daughter, bro. Put her in my hand, bro.”
The situation only got out of control and eventually, Barnes’ father showed up on the scene and the urn was turned over to him. Barnes himself was ultimately let go without being arrested.
As the bodycam footage made it to social media, it has struck the nerve and people are baffled over the cruel behavior of police and people are telling that this incident is just proof that how inhumane the police force can be.
The situation that makes things only worse is that Barnes' two-year-old daughter Ta'Naja died due to the neglect of her mom in a highly publicized case.
Her mother was sentenced to 20 years prison time only a few months back and this suggests that the whole case is widely publicized which means that Springfield police already knew exactly who Barnes was and why he would have a small urn in his possession.
The grieving father has now filed a lawsuit against specific police officers.
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