Harris County Precinct 1 deputy Keisha Ross faces an internal affairs investigation after allegedly chasing unarmed Michael Evans with a visible weapon in her personal Nissan Altima, forcing him to stop during a phone dispute. While Constable Alan Rosen confirms the video and promises transparency, Evans argues Ross should face criminal charges for aggravated assault rather than mere desk duty. The segment critiques the lack of accountability, questions if qualified immunity protects such unconstitutional stops, and highlights racial biases suggesting the outcome might differ if Evans were white, ultimately demanding immediate firing or handcuffs for this misuse of power. [Automatically generated summary]
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Deputy Fired Over Video00:06:29
And breaking tonight, the precincts one constable's office says an off-duty deputy has been reassigned over this video showing her pulling a gun on a man during a family dispute.
ABC 13's Jessica Willey live after talking to the man who had that gun pulled on him and his family.
She's live tonight, Jessica.
Yeah, I can tell you this video is being shared among law enforcement circles with strong criticism of this deputy's actions.
Tonight, Harris County Constable Alan Rosen says she has been reassigned to desk duty.
An investigation is underway.
Michael Evans did not want to talk on camera.
He says he was not armed at his family's urging.
He started recording.
Explosive video of a Harris County Precinct 1 deputy constable not on her best day.
We are blurring her face because the agency hasn't named her and she hasn't been charged with a crime.
Her gun is unmistakable.
They blurred her face because she's black.
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The encounter happening this afternoon, the man recording in a fight he tells ABC 13 with the mother of his child took off with her phone.
He says her sister, the deputy, chased him down in her own car.
I couldn't believe it.
And that's when he called his cousin.
Even though he might have not been in the right, at that time, it still doesn't make it right for her to take actions upon herself.
It's not how things go.
You can't take the law in your own hand because you got a badge.
That's my right.
Keisha Ross did not want to show her face, but she feels strongly about how the deputy responded.
In full uniform with threats, the video shows.
And all because she wanted her sister's phone back.
She should be fired on the spot.
Yeah.
That guy policing union has got to go through a process.
Yeah, that's crazy.
That should have been...
She went...
I mean, she just trampled the law.
You use your badge and your uniform to stop someone over a personal dispute, a civil dispute.
That's because it's your family member.
That's, I think you should be automatically fired for that.
They put on desk duty.
No, she should be fired.
Could have called the police to get the phone back.
Harris County Precinct 1 Constable Alan Rosen confirms he has seen the video.
Ross believes that she should speak for itself.
There's nothing to figure out.
You see, you know exactly who it is.
They need to go be knocking on her door like they knock on anybody else, though.
That's just how with a daily weapon is she's in uniform.
It's just, it's scary.
And the people that we look up to and the people that we talk 911 to, you pulling the gun on him.
That's crazy to me.
Michael Evans is in a relationship with a deputy sister.
He says it's not the first time he has been a victim of this tactic by this family.
So when things were escalating, he called his cousin Keisha, who immediately told him to end the video call and start recording.
I told him to record it.
But at that time, she was already chasing him with the window down with a gun out the window.
So it wasn't no, she just was chasing behind him.
She literally followed him in circles until he just pulled over, which is crazy.
Fox 26 reached out to Precinct 1 for a statement on this incident, and they said, What we understand at this point is that this was a family dispute that involved our off-duty deputy.
She has been reassigned to death duty pending the outcome of an internal affairs investigation.
The public can be assured that an investigation is underway, and we will be transparent with the outcome.
Do you feel like that's an adequate response from the constable's office?
No, I don't, I don't.
No.
In this case, personally, I don't think females should be cops.
No, because women are wicked.
Well, men could be wicked too.
It's just that they don't have the physicality to do the job and they're more emotional than men.
And when you give somebody this emotional power, this is the kind of stuff that happens.
Yeah, men are wicked, but I think women, when you put them in a position of power, and it was on full display, she pulled a weapon out on an unarmed man.
She did an unconstitutional stop on him.
I mean, I'm sure men have done things like this, but I don't trust women when shit hits the fan.
They overreact.
Like I'm in a car with my wife and a deer runs out.
I do not trust her.
She will freeze.
She will abort that deer to save that deer and kill her whole family.
I remember I got in a huge argument with my wife.
I said, Next time it ever happens again, if you try to save that deer, I want a divorce.
I said, next time it happens, you see a deer, you speed up and you take that deer out.
Because if you stop, swerve, you're going to cause a huge accident.
And chances are, you're going to end up losing your life because that stupid deer ran in the freeway or ran across the road.
All that deer is going to do is this.
You're going to stop and look back at you.
Yeah, you're going to nibble some grass.
They're going to run off in the bush.
Yep.
Take him out.
What do you think should be done to her?
I think she should be charged like anybody else.
And I'm not understanding why she don't have an aggravated salt with a deadly weapon worn out now.
If it was anybody else, they'd have put a warrant out before without us even happening to go to the police department.
Evans didn't want to talk on camera as he fears for his safety.
You just feel like you're going to take the law in your own hand.
They got her just blurred.
Everybody knows who you are.
Yeah.
That's in the family.
Everybody knows who this is.
Talk here.
And you know, cops have what is it called?
Qualified immunity?
Yeah.
Qualified immunity.
Qualified immunity doesn't protect you from doing stupid stuff like that.
Yeah.
You're going to do what you want to do.
But because you got a uniform, you feel like it's okay.
But that uniform and the bags don't make you do things to people like that.
Because what if the gun would have accidentally went out?
Yeah, she, uh, I know.
Her fingers on the trigger.
Acting Outside Law Parameters00:01:24
You know, it's even worse.
The thing she was saying when the video first started, the original video, the stuff she said, it's enough to be fired.
Yeah.
What she was saying.
The stop alone is enough for her to be fired.
Yeah.
Just forget about the loaded fire on with your finger on the trigger.
That should be the icing on the cake.
Yeah.
She should already be fired.
Well, Kim.
You don't need to do an investigation because she acted outside of the parameters of the law.
She was off duty.
Yeah.
Still in uniform.
You see the car she ran back to?
Yeah.
Well, she was in her own car when she did this.
Oh, really?
Yeah, watch the car.
See a car right there?
That's not a police car.
I think that's a Nissan Altima.
That's crazy.
So that lady was trying to personal car.
Yeah, that lady was saying, said she was driving down the road, made him pull over because she was waving her gun outside the car.
Yeah.
She should already be fired.
She actually should be in handcuffs.
Yeah.
She should be.
I don't like.
If that was a white person, his face would be all over TV, TikTok.
They'd be already doxed the person.
You know, they got a bunch of DEI in Houston, Texas.