Former Texas City officer faces federal civil rights lawsuit in viral Buc-ee’s traffic stop

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Officer Scott Harrell was fired from the Texas City Police Department in September after an investigation of the April 2023 parking lot traffic stop.

– A fired Texas City police officer has been sued in federal court for alleged civil rights violations after he pulled a man over, put him in handcuffs, and threatened to take him to jail from a Buc-ee’s parking lot last April.

Scott Harrell was fired in September when a new Texas City police chief took over. He’s accused of violating First and Fourth Amendment rights, according to a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday. SEE ALSO: Texas City police officer remains under investigation as new video shows moments before viral Buc-ee’s traffic stopHis client, Christopher Shull, was on his way to fill up with gas on April 19, 2023, when Harrell initiated the traffic stop, which was captured on body camera video and surveillance cameras.

”If this guy was willing to do what he did with me over running over empty spaces in a parking lot, can you imagine what he does to people when he when he has something on them? You know, his entire history needs to be checked,” Shull told KPRC 2 last year.

 

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