FORNEY, Texas – A Forney mother plans to file a civil lawsuit against the Forney Police Department this week for a felony police stop she was subjected to in August after police misidentified her car as a suspect vehicle involved in a reckless driver with a gun call.
FORNEY, Texas – A Forney mother plans to file a civil lawsuit against the Forney Police Department this week for a felony police stop she was subjected to in August after police misidentified her car as a suspect vehicle involved in a reckless driver with a gun call.
Kametra Barbour, alongside Friendship-West Baptist Church Pastor Frederick D. Haynes and her attorney, held a press conference in Dallas, Texas, earlier this morning to announce the suit and asked the Forney Police Department to require officers to attend racial sensitivity training and hire African American police officers. The formation of a civilian review board to investigate alleged misconduct by police was also requested.
Barbour and four children, under the age of 10, were stopped on the eastbound U.S. Highway 80 service road just before the Windmill Farms Boulevard overpass and were subjected to the felony police stop which required Barbour to be ordered out of her car at gunpoint.
According to dispatch audio and dashcam video, the Forney Police Department was attempting to locate a tan- or beige-colored Toyota with four black males inside armed with a gun. Barbour was driving a burgundy Nissan Maxima.
The Forney Police Department claimed in a statement they were told to pull over Barbour's vehicle when a 911 caller stated “they got him” after an officer ran the license plate on Barbour's vehicle. However, dashcam video and audio shows a different officer attempting to pull over the correct vehicle at the time the caller stated “they got him.” Dispatch then advised the wrong officer they had the correct vehicle.
The 911 caller then called back a second time, this time stating, “They, well, the car they hit the lights on was the right car but they didn't pull them over. I believe they may have gotten the wrong car back there.”
Dispatchers could be heard saying they already had the vehicle pulled over based on the license plate number the caller provided, except they didn't. The Forney Police Department would not comment on the miscommunication during the time of the stop which resulted in the wrong vehicle being pulled over.
An overlay of dashcam video and audio by inForney.com suggests the dispatcher was told they had the wrong vehicle approximately 28 seconds before Barbour exited her vehicle at gunpoint, walked backwards to the officers commands, and was placed in handcuffs.
Two statements, dashcam video, and audio files released by the Forney Police Department on their Facebook Page have since been deleted.
Police officers offered Barbour several apologies after the stop. No complaints have been filed with the department by Barbour since the stop.
