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The ones in Alabama leave those blisters every time.

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Lol. Ants.
What this country has become

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What’s up with “Malcolm X” (on the right) joining in on the news conference? Force of habit?

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If they’re the same type of fire ants that are around here, she wouldn’t have to be in the nest very long.  If she was cuffed, she couldn’t get them off of her and if the cops didn’t do it pretty quickly she could easily have been bitten like the pictures show.  They might not hurt as bad as yellow jackets, but no one is going to sit there on purpose and get that many fire ant bites if they can help it.

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Lol. Ants.
What this country has become

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Lol.  I guess you’re from the north with no fire ants.  But you won’t post your locale so IDK. Lol.

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I would have sued them before my ass was out on bail. You can look at someone and see they are covered in fire ants.

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Never seen fire ants leave those blisters before.

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I hope she wins, what was the point of holding her face down as the ants had their way with her.

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“Misleading body cam footage?”

That’s a bold strategy Cotton.

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No group ever recorded a song called "Fuck the Fire Dept."

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Couple bites, whatever.  Being left there long enough for that to happen, nope.

100% on the site on the girl.  

They should do away with traffic police.

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What's up with "Malcolm X" (on the right) joining in on the news conference? Force of habit?

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Lol. Ants.
What this country has become

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She was in a cell fkr 2 days before she received any medical attention


300+ bites when they stopped counting them


Her 9 year old was in her car when it was stopped and  another officer named in the lawsuit totalled it


The black guy is a retired Houston police Sargent with 28 years as a officer and civil rights advocate who siad that dept needs to have the DOJ go in and investigate

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Wait, presumably they moved her car out of the road and crashed it during?

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Couple bites, whatever.  Being left there long enough for that to happen, nope.

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Why is she suing three years later?

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Is there video of the incident?

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Is there video of the incident?

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Well, that's one way of looking at it.

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If you listen to the PD, it’s, “misleading.”

They continue to not hold themselves accountable, which is why so many seemed to have turned their back on them.

I love the police, but to say a woman was treated with divinity and respect while allowing fire ants to continue to bite her is the bullshit that leads to the ACAB beliefs.

Just admit this shouldn’t have happened like this, but too many blue backers won’t.

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Reading the article, before the site locked up laptop up, it’s more obvious that they are saying the footage shown at the press conference is misleading.

I need to see more then that little bit of footage to say if there’s wrong doing

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No group ever recorded a song called "Fuck the Fire Dept."

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I like the follower of the Nation Of Islam and their great ideology.

Never seen fire ants leave those blisters before.

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No group ever recorded a song called "Fuck the Fire Dept."

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Those don't look like any fire ant bites I've ever seen.

Why did she wait so long to file the lawsuit?

Ha ha, those are just a couple lil ant bites.

She shouldn't have resisted.

I was taught to be polite and respectful to dUh bLeW and this never happens to me.

Am I missing any so far?

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There’s always the truth in the middle, but didn’t like what I saw in her snippet, and reading she wasn’t given treatment for days. Why was she still in jail at all?


I’ve seen enough to say this shouldn’t have happened the way it did.

KPRC 2's Rilwan Balogun spoke with Santa Fe ISD Police Chief Ruben Espinoza via Zoom. Espinoza was a sergeant with the school district and at the scene of the arrest.

According to Espinoza, Rogers appeared to be attempting to cut to the front of the area where parents drop off their students, and she behaved erratically when he attempted to warn her against it.

A short time later, Rogers was apprehended by different officers, and she drove off the road onto grass attempting to get away after they turned on their lights, Espinoza said.


“She turned her vehicle into a bus driveway where students are dropped off by the bus,” Espinoza said. “That location [is] at the front of the school is very close to where kids are being dropped off. I could tell she was determined not to stop, so my fear was... that she was going to run over someone near the school. So, I used my vehicle to stop her vehicle from doing that.”

After officers stopped her vehicle, Espinoza said Rogers was being erratic and noncompliant when she was put into handcuffs. At this point, he says the events that took place in the video don’t tell the full story.

He also clarified that there was no visible ant pile on the area of the ground where Rogers was placed.

Body Camera footage from Santa Fe ISD police department.
Body Camera footage from Santa Fe ISD police department. (Santa Fe ISD Police Department)
“The video that y’all were provided by her attorneys does not show a complete, accurate description of the event,” Espinoza said. “In the video, you can clearly see there is no pile of ants that was observable, that I could see at that time. During this whole time, she’s noncompliant.”

He added that he told officers to put Rogers in the police vehicle seconds after she was heard saying she was being bitten, but she resisted again. After the video cuts, Espinoza says officers told Rogers to calm down, at which point she agreed and was lifted without further incident.


“The description of the ants only lasted seconds, and it only lasted as long as it did because she was noncompliant. She would’ve been lifted off the ground sooner if she had quit resisting at that time.”

Santa Fe Police Chief Walter Barun could not be reached for comment, but Santa Fe City Manager Alun Thomas has spoken out in support of the officers involved. He added that he was satisfied with the internal investigation into the officers’ behavior during the incident.

“We have a process in place and certain standards we expect our officers to meet,” Thomas said. “When officers fall short of those standards, appropriate action is taken against them.”

Thomas said city policy prevented him from commenting further on the case or the lawsuit.

Per the lawsuit, Rogers was driving with her son when an officer started yelling at her to stop. Court documents said Rogers panicked because officers pounded on her vehicle and pointed their gun at her