![]() ![]() 13 and Lawrence Township chief constable Terry Burns told RTV6 he “made the decision immediately” to fire Jones, ousting the veteran law enforcement officer that night. The tense standoff that played out last week in the parking lot outside the Nordstrom Rack was captured in a 17-minute cellphone video that has since gone viral, sparking accusations that the two men were racially profiled by the white security guard, who was later identified as Lawrence Township deputy constable Daryl Jones. If he didn’t see identification soon, the man threatened to tow their car, or worse, have them arrested. “You’re acting suspicious,” the man told the cousins, who are both black. Now, he was demanding Cunningham present his driver’s license. The man had watched the pair pay for their items inside the Indianapolis store, yet he still followed them outside and tried to take down their license plate number. It didn’t make sense, Blackwell would later recall. ![]() ‘I got my rights to do anything I want to do’: Officer immediately fired after viral video shows him stopping black shoppers for ‘acting suspicious’Īaron Blackwell and his cousin Durell Cunningham had no idea why the Nordstrom Rack security guard was striding purposefully toward their car.
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