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– I did not feel ashamed when I was walking among the horses, it was only when I saw the recording that I was ashamed. Recording the video hurt because I didn’t realize I was being filmed, says Donald Neely of Galveston, Texas.
A year has passed since the police arrested him, tied a rope to his handcuffs and led him through the city between two horses. When the police released the images from the cameras the officers were carrying, Neely was overwhelmed with shame.
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Now it demands a million dollars in repairs.
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Here Neely is arrested and escorted to arrest. The photo is taken from video filmed with a camera attached to Police Chief Patrick Brosch.
Mentally ill
According to the Houston Chronicle, Neely was not quite ready when he was arrested. Neely has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and has lived on the streets of Galveston for several years.
The man was arrested for being on someone else’s land without permission.
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The lawsuit was filed by Neely’s attorney, Julie Ketterman. He says the police officers who arrested him should have understood that Neely, as an African American, would find it offensive to be driven through city streets between two tethered horses, as if he were a slave.
“Neely felt that they exhibited him like the slaves were. He was frightened because one of the horses behaved dangerously and it made Neely fear that the horse would drag him down the street.” It is set on demand.
It looks bad
– We have to do what we have to do, says Patrick Brosch after the rope is tied to the handcuffs and Neely receives the cup with a small change that he has begged for this day.
– I’m glad you’re not ashamed, Brosch adds to Neely.
Just before, he tells his partner Amanda Smith that this will look very bad while holding the rope.
Here you can see the police video of the arrest and how Neely was escorted around the city.
The video went viral and generated strong reactions in the United States.
After the arrest, Neely finally accepted the help that his family had been trying to give him for several years. He has started taking medicine and has moved in with his sister.
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Donald Neely has filed a lawsuit against the police after an arrest in which he experienced that he was portrayed as a slave. Photo: Marie D. De Jesus / Houston Chronicle via AP Photo: Marie D. De Jesus / AP
Now he has also sued the city of Texas for a million dollars, or 9.1 million crowns. The municipality will not comment on the case.
Galveston Police Chief Vernon L. Hale III has written on Facebook that his servants have done nothing wrong.
“My servants had no malicious intent when Neely was arrested, but we made immediate changes to avoid using this method,” he wrote about escorting detainees on horseback.
