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A video of Alabama police wrestling a black woman to the ground and threatening to break her arm during an arrest at a Waffle House has sparked outrage on social media but the restaurant chain said the officers' actions appear to have been justified.

Chikesia Clemons was arrested early Sunday by three white Saraland police officers inside a Waffle House early Sunday and charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.

The video of the arrest shows officers arguing with Clemons before pulling her from a chair onto the tile floor in an effort to handcuff her. In the process, Clemons' top is pulled down, exposing her breasts.

"What are you doing?" Clemons exclaims.

"I'm about to break your arm, that what I'm about to do," one of the officers says.

The video does not show the events that led to the arrest, but Clemons' mother, Chiquitta Clemons-Howard, told the local news site AL.com that the incident began when Clemons requested plastic utensils with her order and was told by an employee that it would cost her 50 cents.

Clemons told the employee she had not had to pay for plasticware at the same restaurant the night before, at which point the employee canceled the order and Clemons asked to complain to a manager.

Waffle House spokesman Greg Rollings disputed that version of events, saying the information the company reviewed "differs significantly" from Clemons' account.

"After reviewing our security video of the incident and eyewitness accounts, police intervention was appropriate," Rollings told the Associated Press in a statement, without providing further details about what occurred.

But Clemons-Howard insisted "the footage shows the story completely" about what happened during her daughter's arrest.

In the video, Clemons insists she didn't do anything wrong and only asked for the corporate number. One of the police officers tells her that he heard her use "the f-bomb," but no other reasons for the arrest are audible in the video.

The Saraland Police Department said it is investigating the arrest.

The head of the Mobile NAACP chapter compared the incident to the controversial arrest of two black men for trespassing at a Philadelphia Starbucksearlier this month and told AL.com that the organization is looking into the incident.

In that incident, Starbucks quickly apologized and announced that it would close 8,000 stores for its employees to undergo racial sensitivity training.

Several people staged a protest in the Waffle House parking lot Sunday afternoon.
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Smh.. That woman was disrespected like that by those pigs over some damn utensils.. Only in AmeriKKKa...
 
Eh...

I'm gonna need more info before I weigh in on this one.


As much as I hate pigs, sometimes black folks be escalating the situation.
 
https://www.aol.com/article/news/20...ial-arrest-of-woman-at-waffle-house/23418539/

Saraland police stand by controversial arrest of woman at Waffle House

Police in Saraland, Alabama, said a disturbance at a Waffle House there very early Sunday morning that led to a viral video had nothing to do with the cost of plastic utensils and everything to do with the alcoholic beverage the guests brought in with them.

When the group of three were asked to leave by restaurant staff for bringing in the outside beverage, two complied, but 25-year-old Chikesia Clemons did not, police said at a press conference Monday afternoon.

Instead of leaving, Clemons approached workers behind the counter. She was “being loud and using profanity,” according to Saraland Detective Brian Mims.

Witnesses at the Waffle House in the Mobile suburb told officers that she said things like, “I’ll come over this counter and beat your fucking ass” and “Bitch, you don’t know what I’ve got going on. ... I may have a gun, I may have anything, I can come back and shoot this place up if I need to.”

A video of her resulting arrest, recorded by one of Clemons’ friends, went viral Sunday and prompted a protest at the restaurant.

That graphic video shows three white male police officers putting the black woman into handcuffs. She resists and is forced to the floor from the chair where she had been sitting, a process that also pulls down her dress and leaves her breasts exposed.

“What are you doing?” Clemons asks at one point amid the struggle. One of the officers responds, “I’ll break your arm, that’s what I’m about to do.”

Saraland Detective Collette Little said Monday that the statement about Clemons’ arm was “not a threat” but a warning about what can happen when someone resists while their arms are behind their back, as Clemons’ were at that point.

As officers led the handcuffed woman out of the Waffle House, they said they asked her female companion if she would help pull Clemons’ dress back up over her breasts, but the other woman declined. Her male companion asked for Clemons’ permission and then hiked the dress.

As evidence of Clemons’ level of intoxication, Little showed reporters a still photo taken from a surveillance video of the woman holding a garbage can near her mouth as officers were booking her into jail. Little said Monday that Clemons “appeared to be intoxicated” at the time of the incident and was sick later.
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While surveillance video played at Monday’s press conference does show Clemons arguing with a server and later approaching the front counter of the restaurant, her mother, Chiquitta Clemons-Howard, disputes the official statement.

Clemons-Howard told AL.com that her daughter and friends were upset when they requested plastic utensils and were charged $0.50 extra for them ― a charge they’d never been assessed in the past. The interaction escalated from there.

“They didn’t even ask her to leave. She was waiting for them to give her the district manager’s card so she could file a complaint on one of the waitresses,” Clemons-Howard said. “When they went to go get the card, that’s when the police showed up. The officer should’ve come in and said, ‘We need you to leave.’”
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"Clemons told the employee she had not had to pay for plasticware at the same restaurant the night before, at which point the employee canceled the order and Clemons asked to complain to a manager."


SMH at going to Waffle House back to back nights
 
I want to hear the audio. I wouldn't give a fuck if I ate at Waffle House everyday for a month. I'm not about to even have a discussion with someone over $.50 don't care what its about.

The police dude was wrong for how he came in there and most definitely for how they handled that woman.
 
GOAT said:
Belongs in same category as Lemon Pepper wings


Overrated as fuck.

I understand if u drunk late night and no options... But some ppl go to that shit mid day. I dont get it.
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Nah son. Best chain breakfast joint there is, taste like home cooking. And its cheap
 
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