70-Year-Old Woman Sues Tulsa Police Over Civil Rights Violations

Essence Magazine:

By Kevin L. Clark ·Updated May 11, 2022

Ladonna Paris, 70, a great-grandmother and Black woman in Tulsa, Oklahoma, filed a civil rights lawsuit against the police, the city, and Mayor G.T. Bynum.

Alleging that she was attacked and arrested while she was having a mental health crisis, Paris said she was terrified at the time of the October incident. “I was mocked, taunted, and brutalized,” Paris said during a Tuesday news

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