An Alabama police officer was disciplined after he arrested a woman for refusing to show her ID
A police officer in Alabama has been disciplined after he arrested a woman at her home because she refused to show him her identification.
A police officer in Alabama has been disciplined after he arrested a woman at her home because she refused to show him her identification.
City leaders have condemned the arrest of Twyla Stallworth, 40, in February and ordered the entire Andalusia Police Department to receive additional training in city ordinances and constitutional and state law.
Stallworth had called police to her home on Feb. 23 on a noise complaint, she said, because a neighbor was playing music too loudly. The music stopped when police visited the neighbor's house but resumed after they left, Stallworth said.
Twyla Stallworth.Twyla StallworthShe then went out to her car and purposely turned on the alarm to draw her neighbor's attention, she said. Then another neighbor began playing music loudly, and police soon arrived at Stallworth's home.
Cellphone video shot by Stallworth's son, Jermani Marshall, 18, and released by her attorney, Harry Daniels, shows Andalusia Police Officer John G. Barton standing at Stallworth’s doorstep asking for her identification.
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