Michael Jennings, the Black pastor in Alabama who was arrested while watering his neighbors' flowers, has filed a federal lawsuit against the police officers involved in the incident.
"This video makes it clear that these officers decided they were going to arrest Pastor Jennings less than five minutes after pulling up and then tried to rewrite history claiming he hadn't identified himself when that was the first thing he did," Daniels said in a statement to NPR.
"I'm supposed to be here. I'm Pastor Jennings. I live across the street," Jennings told the officer in the body camera footage obtained by NPR.Michael Jennings is a pastor at this church in Sylacauga, Ala. Jennings was arrested while watering flowers at a neighbor's home in nearby Childersburg in May.Michael Jennings is a pastor at this church in Sylacauga, Ala. Jennings was arrested while watering flowers at a neighbor's home in nearby Childersburg in May.
"[The officer] parked around back and walked around front. And immediately, you could tell by the tone of his voice I was already guilty," he said., a Childersburg police officer approaches Jennings as he is seen on camera watering plants in a yard. Once the officer approaches Jennings and asks him what he is doing, he replies:"Watering flowers."
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