Detroit woman sues Detroit, ex-cops after 2019 Snapchat video

A woman is suing the city of Detroit and two former Detroit Police officers who were fired in 2019 after they allegedly posted a racially charged video of her to social media after a traffic stop.Ariel Moore of Detroit alleges that the two former officers, Gary Steele and Michael Garrison, posted a video of her walking home in “dangerously below freezing” weather after they confiscated her car keys when they pulled her over for an alleged absence of a registration tab in January 2019. The video, posted to Snapchat, was captioned “What Black Girl Magic Looks Like” and “Celebrating Black History Month,” and two men, allegedly Steele and Garrison, can be heard saying “Walk of shame. In the cold” and “Bye, Felicia.”Moore, a Black woman, says the officers’ alleged actions constituted racial discrimination and caused “great physical pain,” “emotional distress” and “humiliation” in a lawsuit filed Tuesday with the U.S District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.The suit claims the two former officers, both of whom are White, acted “willfully, maliciously, in bad faith and in reckless disregard of federally protected rights,” and that the city failed to adequately train its officers prior to the incident and adequately respond when it occurred. The incident sparked controversy in 2019 and earned the condemnation of then-police Chief James…
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