Ameal Woods and Jordan Davis got trapped by Harris County’s forfeiture racket and want their life savings back. To pursue the dream of owning their own trucking business, Ameal and Jordan saved money from jobs, tax refunds, and by keeping expenses low. They accumulated over $40,000, enough for Ameal to rise from truck driver to truck owner. On May 14, 2019, after weeks of scouring ads for used tractor-trailers, Ameal was ready to buy one of his own. He drove from Natchez, Mississippi, and headed towards Houston. But when he arrived in Harris County, police pulled Ameal over, took his cash, and sent him on his way without so much as a warning.
For the past two years, the couple heard nothing from Harris County due to the County’s feeble efforts to satisfy the most basic of constitutional requirements: notice. Who could afford to have their life savings taken away for more than two years with no hearing and no opportunity to go before a judge? Over that time, others like Ameal and Jordan also lost their cash to police, and County prosecutors used Texas’s civil courts, not criminal courts, to keep the cash permanently.
Harris County has an unconstitutional financial incentive to seize and forfeit cash and other property without probable cause and to do so excessively, sweeping in innocent people and property. Its practice of using form affidavits, vague allegations, and tough tactics instead of evidence of crimes also violates the Texas Constitution. That is why Ameal and Jordan have teamed up with the Institute for Justice to file a major class-action lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Harris County’s civil forfeiture program.
This is soooooo disgusting and CRIMINAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What you want to bet this is why Abbot brags about having so much surplus money in TX. I hate these fcks!!!!
treat these criminals just like you would if they were not in a uniform….shoot them, you are being robbed
and oh, never talk to the po lice
I have heard this sort of thing from COPS as well as Border Patrol folks and others through these people out here in my neck of the woods: Texas is notorious for stopping OUT OF STATE folks (especially California!) for tickets of all kinds…speeding/no seat belt/broken light/etc. as well as civil asset forfeiture, especially east Texas (NEVER use I-45 through Tenaha!), but didn’t know Houston was this bad. But here’s the thing… these thugs will never stop locals or those (tracked by camera) that are regular drive through folks, or use tollways (since they’ll get loot from tolls as well). It is almost always out of state folks regardless of race.
The man in the pix looks honorable, a nice guy…not some BLM thug…which is another reason cop thugs stole his savings (cops wouldn’t risk stealing from a BLMer knowing “peaceful” protests would result!) So, where is BLM in this, not defending a black couple? Oh yeah, they only defend their fellow black thugs, not decent blacks.
I do hope he gets double his money back! And maybe Katie’s statement above is BINGO! While Texas has its great sides, Civil Asset Forfeiture (along with the death penalty and plenty of govt. corruption, etc. and governors talking out of both sides of their mouths, not just Abbott) is one of the worst, and one of the worst in the whole nation, esp. for out of staters.
Im sure he got names, right?
ok ill leave it at that
Don’t carry too much cash!!! If you have any at all!!!! SHOT GUN BLAST!!!!
If your not angry. your six feet under.
KILL the thieving highwayman when they try this shit …. I WILL ……….. This shit will END as SOON as YOU pussies do …….