Black woman, traffic stop, arrested for DWI...I thought she passed the sobriety test...which is a test that takes way too long and is unnecessary, IMO.
She watched the light on the small stick go back and forth, she did the heel to toe 9 steps, turn and return 9 steps, stand on one leg, foot flat out and count from 1000 upward..."1001, 1002...".
She didn't, according to the White cop, ...he arrested her, cuffed her, then sat her in the passenger seat of his truck. Everything being recorded.
He tapped on his computer a lot, asked her if she needed her purse and phone.
He walked to her car searched it, got something for her, then she wanted something else, so went and got that.
All fine by me so far.
It all took so long to do. Relative came to take some of her belongings.
Tow truck arrived. Car towed.
More tapping on the computer.
Finally cop drove her to jail for a breath test on the machine.
Got to the jail carpark...he escorted her into a room where the breath machine was.
He spent 15 minutes filling our more paperwork with a pen.
Then the machine wouldn't awaken.
The info he had didn't work...so he took her back out into the under building carpark to his truck, and tapped on the computer some more.
Went back to the blue door room....info not good, went back out to the truck again.
By this time woman was yawning...I was nearly asleep watching it all...bits of paper everywhere.
Anyway, nearly 2 hours after he pulled her over he finally got her to blow into the machine.
Under the limit she was!
Youtube; "DPS Releases Body Camera Video of Ellis County Traffic stop and DWI arrest 05.20.18
On May 20, 2018, at approximately 1:32 a.m., a Texas Highway Patrol Trooper observed a 2013 Chevrolet Malibu traveling south on Interstate 35 in Ellis County near U.S. 287. The vehicle was stopped for a traffic violation. Based on the traffic stop, the driver was arrested for driving while intoxicated (DWI). The driver, identified as Sherita Dixon-Cole, 37, from Grapevine, was arrested and transported to the Ellis County Jail, where she was charged with DWI.
Following the arrest, spurious and false accusations related to this traffic stop were made against the Texas Trooper. Upon learning of those allegations, the Texas Department of Public Safety immediately took action to review the video in connection with this traffic stop and arrest. The video shows absolutely no evidence to support the egregious and unsubstantiated accusations against the Trooper during the DWI arrest of the suspect.
The Department is appalled that anyone would make such a despicable, slanderous and false accusation against a peace officer who willingly risks his life every day to protect and serve the public.
At the department’s request, the Ellis County District Attorney’s Office has reviewed video of the traffic stop and arrest, and authorized the release of the video.
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