California Man Claims Civil Rights Violations when run out of town of Taft, Texas
CORPUS CHRISTI -- Police snatch a young man off the street and run him out of town: sounds like a scene from a movie but a 21-year-old man from California says it happened to him in the small, South Texas town of Taft.
Devon Armstrong tells KRIS-6 News Investigates the he refused the first time Taft police told him to get on a bus back to California. Instead, he walked back to town, back to the girl he says he'd come there for, in the first place, after meeting her on Facebook.
But, Taft Police have not accepted our invitation to share their version of events that a civil rights lawyer described as "disturbing."
Chris Gale listened to our interview with Armstrong, who described how a Taft Police officer pulled him from the public library, placed him in handcuffs and delivered him to Taft Police Chief Klaus "Bill" Mansion.
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