@Regrann from @lanie_1984 - @Regrann from @warriorqueen_1 - from @dp_mind.and.soul - Repost By @merciful.melanin: "A Miss Black #TexasUSAmbassador says she was just trying to go to #Walmart when her night ended in her going to #jail for a charge of resisting arrest and the police chief calling her a “#blackbitch.” Commerce City Manager Darrek Ferrell said officials spoke with the #police chief and the officers involved about the incident before the issue started circulating online, and details provided by the officers conflicted with the woman’s account. He declined to specify which details. She said she drove into a Walmart parking lot, but the car followed her and a man started #yelling at her, saying he was teaching his 14-year-old #daughter to drive and Ponder should not have driven around her. Ponder said she ignored the man at first but eventually told him that that was illegal before she walked into the store. She said the man responded, “oh whatever, you black bitch.” Ponder said she came back outside after she had purchased her items and another man approached her, showed her a police badge and “started screaming.” Her attorney, Lee Merritt, said it was a plain clothes officer and the officer told Ponder the man who had been yelling at her was Commerce Police Chief Kerry Crews, and she had “better #apologize.”Ponder said she declined and kept walking to her #car, when the officer grabbed her and told her she was being #detained. Merritt said she then called 911 on her cell phone, and when those officers arrived the plain clothes officer told them she was evading arrest. The officers #arrested Ponder, and she said she was held in jail for 24 hours and charged with evading arrest. Ponder is trying to raise #$10,000 on #YouCaring for attorney’s #fees to fight the charges. Ponder is the former Miss Black Texas U.S. Ambassador, which the website says is a position meant “to encourage, empower and enlighten, communities’ states and nations. Our purpose is to be a rising voice in the community and to make difference, by providing #educational forums and events that focus on health disparities, #poverty, #violence and major issues plaguing the African A
