BOSSIP Exclusive: Alabama Sheriff Arrests Blacks To Bring In Profits

High school senior Kendarian Little, 18, said sheriff’s officers surrounded his house on Feb. 26 after he’d come home from school. The officers barged in, searched the place, and then hauled him away in handcuffs.

“They didn’t show me nothing, no type of warrant,” Little told BOSSIP. “They didn’t read me my rights until the next day, when I was in jail.”

Little was also charged with felony “Unlawful Distribution of a Controlled Substance,” and “Penalty Enforcement.”

Little said things got worse once he got to the Pickens County Jail: black mold covered the place, and it was so overcrowded that he was forced to sleep on a table with a blanket.

One of the jailers told Little that the mass arrests were little more than a racket.

“They kept saying it,” Little said. “That it was a money scheme, so we can’t do anything about it.”

He denies the charges and said the sheriff has no evidence, but he said a judge still set his bail at $40,000. His mother, Katina Levida, a student and single mother, had to set up a payment plan with a local bail bonds man, who put up $4,000, or 10 percent, to bail her son out.

“We don’t have anything,” the mom said. “I have a son with Down’s Syndrome. I have bills. I am a single parent doing all of this.”

“I had to come up with money that I don’t even have.”

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