First published at 09:27 UTC on December 25th, 2022.
An 82-year-old Alabama woman was left in tears after being handcuffed, arrested and thrown in jail for failing to pay a $77.80 trash bill.
One of the officers who’d come to arrest Martha Menefield, an 82-year-old Black woman, for failure to pay a $…
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An 82-year-old Alabama woman was left in tears after being handcuffed, arrested and thrown in jail for failing to pay a $77.80 trash bill.
One of the officers who’d come to arrest Martha Menefield, an 82-year-old Black woman, for failure to pay a $77 trash bill, told her not to cry.
The officer had tapped her on the back, she said. She was already in handcuffs.
When two officers pulled up outside her Valley, Alabama home on Sunday, Menefield didn’t know why they were there. She said the officers – one white, one Black – got out of their patrol car and approached her home. One of the officers said they were there to arrest her for failure to pay her trash bill.
Menefield just laughed. She genuinely thought the officer was joking.
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