Tulsan sues city, Trump campaign over her arrest before president's rally at BOK Center

A Tulsa woman filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the city and former President Donald Trump’s campaign alleging multiple civil rights violations in connection with her arrest before Trump’s rally last summer.

The lawsuit from Sheila Buck claims Trump’s campaign, through then-manager Brad Parscale, had no legal basis to give the Tulsa Police Department power to arrest Buck the morning of June 20.

Buck, an art teacher at a Tulsa Catholic school, was shown being arrested while wearing a T-shirt that said “I Can’t Breathe” — a reference to the deaths of George Floyd in Minnesota and Eric Garner in New York at the hands of police — despite having been cleared to enter the event perimeter.

The lawsuit, filed in Tulsa County District Court by attorney Dan Smolen, also identifies Tulsa police officers C.J. Rhoades and Matthew Parker as Buck’s arresting officers. Each is named in his individual capacity, as are Parscale and three members of the U.S. Secret Service.

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