#Texas men busted for cursing while questioning friend’s arrest in viral video
“Texas men busted for cursing while questioning friend’s arrest in viral video”
June 5, 2020 | 10:05am
Two Texas men were busted for cursing while questioning their friend’s arrest this week — and the video of the incident has since gone viral.
Skylar Gilmore, Isaiah Benavides and Isaiah Phillips were outside the Baytown Market Convenience Store Tuesday when another friend, Jostin Moore, 24, was pulled over in a separate car — for what police say were unspecified traffic violations and an outstanding warrant out of Deer Park, KHOU 11 reported.
Benavides started recording the traffic stop and posted it to Facebook — racking up 76,000 views by Friday morning.
About four-and-a-half minutes into the video, one of the two Baytown police officers on scene approaches Gilmore, 24, and tells him he’s under arrest for “cussing in public.”
The clip then shows the officer throw Gilmore to the ground and knee him in the face.
He was busted on a disorderly conduct-language charge for using profanity, cops confirmed to KHOU. A spokesperson for the Harris County District Attorney’s Office told the outlet that prosecutors dropped a separate charge against him for interfering with public duties because of a lack of evidence.
“This was my first time going to jail,” Gilmore told the station. “I’m a law-abiding citizen, and I got sent to jail for cursing.”
Another officer is shown on the video grabbing Phillips, 23, from behind. He faces the same municipal foul language charge, according to the report.
“They slammed me on my friend Skylar’s hood, used my face to dent his hood,” Phillips told the outlet. “That’s not proper.”
“If you don’t get back, I’m gonna break your s–t,” one of the cops threatened Benavides as he filmed Phillips’ arrest.
Baytown Police Chief Keith Dougherty has since filed a complaint against the officers, he said at a Thursday protest outside police headquarters, according to the station.
Both officers have been placed on desk duty while Internal Affairs conducts an investigation, which could end with both cops booted from the force, he said.
“I try to hold people accountable, and I feel the frustration,” Dougherty said. “Obviously I felt that there were some better judgments that could have been made, and so that’s why I called for the investigation,” he said.
About 200 people attended the protest, calling for more police accountability.
“We’re walking together,” Benavides told the local outlet. “We’re not just doing this for us. We’re doing this for our community, period.”
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