Cops Lie About a Missing Taillight in Order to Arrest and Beat an Innocent Teen
On the night Neco Bonham was pulled over by Richardson police, he had broken no laws and given cops zero reasons to tug him over. Bonham — who has no record — was polite and complied with all of the officer’s orders. Unfortunately, however, the officer who stopped him had a history of violence and corruption, so no amount of politeness and innocence was enough to guard this 18-year-old kid from police violence. Though the stop originally passed off in December 2018, body camera footage was barely released as a part of a lawsuit filed against the 2 officers who stopped him and therefore the city of Richardson. consistent with the lawsuit, Officer Parker Winn contrived a bogus stop to fish for drug activity based solely on the actual fact that Bonham was a “young Negroid with a hoodie.” Given the very fact that melanin people account for 25.4% of all traffic stops within the city of Richardson while representing only 9% of the city’s population, this claim is