According to Newsweek, the woman who captured the video and posted it to Instagram said, “Nekia was simply walking home and somebody called the police & said she was trying to jump in front of cars.”
Ray’s cousin, Teronica Williams, said the police were excessive in the way they handled the situation, particularly Trigg.
“Of course, me and our other family members are hurt this happened to her because we know what type of person she is,” she said. “It takes one person to watch this video and devalue both her and Kia’s character and have the world thinking they deserve this and that—and that’s not fair.”
She also disputed the accusation that she was jumping in and out of traffic.
“I’m not sure what they would consider traffic when she was clearly in a residential area,” Williams said. “There’s not much traffic in a residential area when kids are literally always outside in the street riding bikes, playing basketball, etc.”
Meanwhile, the public response to the incident and the video that captured it has been so overwhelming that the Kaufman County Sheriff’s Office posted a statement to Facebook asking that people stop calling about what happened because the call volume was “unmanageable.”
In a statement to the News, the Sheriff’s Office said Martin currently “is not working,” which presumably means he’s been placed on leave while the incident is being investigated.
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