KFOR:
The Tulsa Police Department is now facing backlash after an October 2021 arrest of a 70-year-old woman in a mental health crisis started making rounds on social media.
The startling 6-minute video of the incident was made from body camera footage of Tulsa police officers in a Tulsa business last October.
A woman named LaDonna Paris, 70, was suffering from a mental health crisis with her bipolar disorder and locked herself in the bathroom.
She was later arrested and spent a month in jail.
After a month, she was released with no charges.
I may be a little biased on this one—since I grew up with her family, and one of her sons was one of my best friends in high school—but I would like to see each and every single cop involved in this travesty not only fired, but nailed to the wall on any charge possible.
The cash settlement is going to be insane. There is no way, in a million years, that this should have happened.
LaDonna is a very intelligent woman. She is accomplished and respected. Tulsa may be the center of her orbit, but she has roots all over Oklahoma and Arkansas. I have been a guest in her home more times than I could possibly count. No matter what the boys were doing on Friday and Saturday nights, she had us at church on Sunday morning. No sir, I would not cross her. These cops messed up.
“This is not right.” – LaDonna Paris