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The son of a retired circuit court judge who filed a lawsuit against an Arkansas State Police trooper alleging racism as the basis for a 2020 traffic stop was handed a partial victory this week by a federal judge who ruled the trooper was protected by qualified immunity for the stop and search but not for leaving the man in handcuffs after determining he would not be arrested.
The son of a retired circuit court judge who filed a lawsuit against an Arkansas State Police trooper alleging racism as the basis for a 2020 traffic stop was handed a partial victory this week by a federal judge who ruled the trooper was protected by qualified immunity for the stop and search but not for leaving the man in handcuffs after determining he would not be arrested.
A Little Rock man, who sued an Arkansas State Police trooper after a 2020 traffic stop in which he was detained for nearly two hours -- most of that time in handcuffs -- before being released with a warning ticket, was in court Tuesday as a federal judge grilled the trooper's attorney over the reason behind the stop.
Lawsuit claims Arkansas State Trooper unlawfully stopped and searched Black law student's U-Haul “Through this lawsuit, I seek to stand up for my Constitutional right to be free from police targeting because of the color of my skin." Author: 5NEWS Web Staff, Bailey Devane Published: 10:18 PM CST March 11, 2021 Updated: 10:15 PM CST March 12, 2021 RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. — A University of Arkansas law student is suing an Arkansas State Police Trooper. In the lawsuit, the student says he was handcuffed and detained for over an hour in the back of a...