‘Might Throw Up If I See That Again’: Texas Officers Mocked and Laughed at Black Veteran Who Died After Jail Ignored Him While He Was Restrained for Public Intoxication Arrest
After he was arrested on a misdemeanor public intoxication charge in July 2023, 33-year-old Glenn Smallwood Jr. was taken into custody at the Angelina County Jail in Lufkin, Texas, where his family claims in a federal lawsuit, obtained by Atlanta Black Star, that he was left to die amid a “readily apparent” “medical and mental…
