Prairie View

HOUSTON (AP) — A grand jury has indicted a police officer after he used a stun gun on a City Council member while arresting him in a small, predominantly black Texas college town, authorities said Monday. Prairie View officer Michael Kelley was indicted Friday for official oppression, a misdemeanor, said E. Rivera, chief investigator for […]

Roland Martin talks to Texas city councilman Jonathan Miller after being arrested and tasered when he intervened as officers questioned his friends outside his apartment. “We had just got back form a community service project. We showed up to my house. There was about four of us. I was in the house watching the game. They were […]

Police officers in Prairie View Texas were shown on video Tasing a Texas councilman who was on his knees with his back turned to them outside of his home Saturday. Prairie View police officers were questioning three men about alleged drug activity when Councilman Jonathan Miller, 26, reportedly stepped into the conversation, since the men were guests […]

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (AP) — Police officials in a small, predominantly black Texas college town are defending the decision to use a stun gun on a City Council member when he intervened as officers questioned his friends outside his apartment. Police say they were questioning four men outside Prairie View City Council Member Jonathan Miller’s […]

Prairie View City Council members in Texas are hoping a road renamed after activist Sandra Bland will serve as a constant reminder of the injustices they say she suffered in Waller County, USA Today reports. City officials are also hopeful that the road, which leads to Bland’s alma mater, Prairie View A&M University, will also […]