Police Abduct Dancer

Welcome to the police state. Check your rights at the door.

“They just pulled us out of the car. Put our hands behind our backs like we were criminals,” said Emmanuel Hurd. “He asked me who’s the girl. She’s my student. I said I had a notarized letter from her parents stating that we have full guardianship over her while we’re here.”

All three of them say they pleaded with the police repeatedly telling them their story, but in the end, none of that seemed to matter.

“They still put handcuffs on me and it really scared me. And they put me in the back of a cop car and I was terrified,” said Landry Thompson.

Landry was taken to Child Protective Services. Her mom says she couldn’t believe it when she found out.

“I was horrified. She was with the people I wanted her to be with. She was with people I trusted. And now she was taken away from those people and in a shelter with people I didn’t know,” said Destiny Thompson, Landry’s mother.

Destiny claims she was told she’d have to fly to Houston to get her daughter out. But 11 hours later, following repeated phone calls to police, Landry was released back into the custody of her instructors.

“I would love an apology. They owe her an apology,” said Destiny Thompson.

Apology? They are lucky to get out of that scrape with the law alive.

Update: 4 December 2013 0542z

This photo may explain why the police were acting crazy.

Photo from: ABC News.