Samuel McCrary, an 84-year-old Black man who walks with a limp, was falsely arrested on DUI charges last year by a white Georgia state trooper who is earning a reputation for racial profiling.
That trooper, Andrew Thompson, also arrested another Black man named James Mathis, 61, on DUI charges last year, dragging him out of his car and handcuffing him even though the retired postal worker said he had not been drinking.
“I’ve never been locked up, never been in trouble with the law until that night,” Mathis said in a press conference earlier this month. “This officer treated me so nasty like I was a runaway slave that robbed the bank and (was) trying to get away.”
Now the local NAACP chapter out of Houston County is threatening to take legal action against the Georgia Department of Public Safety, an agency that has come under criticism in the past for racial profiling…