What Happened To Edrick Truitt?

Arkansas cop pulls his firearm on an unarmed motorist.

A Black man films an Arkansas police officer pulling his firearm on him. The person was unarmed and he details how trigger happy this cop was. This was in the consolidate communities of Helena-West Helena. The population of the community is 13,000 residents. The community has 65% Black population. The cop was white.

Edrick Truitt was pulled over for alleged reckless driving. As he was pulled over, he was confronted by the cop. The cop told him to turn off his vehicle. Truitt said, "What I do wrong?"



The cop said, "He's got a gun!"

Edrick Truitt blessed to be alive.

The cop immediately proceeds to pull his firearm. Truitt said, "My hands are in the air. My hands are in the air." As Truitt is filming the cop, he dares the cop to "shot me."

He was parked Sunday just after 3am at a closed convenience store. He was waiting to meet up with family before heading home to Jonesboro.

He said he was trying to leave when police cars pulled up, telling everyone to clear the parking lot.

Truitt was blocked in and couldn't move, so he became the focus of the cop's attention.

Truitt seen the videos time and time again where Black men are being shot without prejudice. He didn't want to be a statistic. He filmed the encounter and posted it on social media. It went viral.

Helena-West Helena Police said that the officer's body camera footage is being reviewed. The officer has reportedly received threats following the incident.

Eventually, the officer holsters his sidearm and forcibly removes Truitt from the vehicle.

"He was like, 'That's a failure to comply,' but if I would have complied, I would have got killed," Truitt pointed out to the junk food media.

Although police later found a gun in Truitt’s car, he said it was out of his reach.

"What I did saved my life," Truitt insisted. "That's why I'm here talking to y'all. If not, y'all would be covering a story about how I got shot."

Truitt was arrested and charged with failing to obey a lawful order.

The suspect is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. The charges are misdemeanor and could carry months or at least a year in the iron college.

Truitt has hired a lawyer and is demanding the charges are dropped. The cop who pulled him over isn't name as of yet. But I bet you money he's scrubbing social media right now to keep anything that may be perceived as racist off.