Pope says she was arrested for failing to stop at a stop sign. She also claims police were rough on her. I've been assaulted, I've been sprayed in the face with mace. The federal agency is already looking into at least two cases of police harassment. But civil rights leaders who have been working with residents say they think there will be many more.
City officials say they are looking into the issue.
One of the things they've started doing is adding cameras to every police car so there will be video documentation of what police and citizens are doing. They are also calling in an independent investigator to look into the allegations. There is also an internal investigation. But so far the city says it hasn't been able to confirm the allegations and that statistically officers arrest and give tickets to more anglos than they do minorities. The issue of racial profiling is the first thing that came up that we were picking on minority people.