A Black woman was yanked out of her car by a Texas police officer, slammed to the ground, and jailed for littering after she tossed a speeding citation from her car onto the street during a traffic stop earlier this year.
National civil rights attorney Lee Merritt has agreed to represent the woman, Taneisha Thompson, saying the Hurst police officer used excessive force over a minor infraction that could have been enforced with a simple citation.
“It’s traumatizing. I was very scared,” Thompson told local media…