Law enforcement company below hearth after individuals elevate alarm over girl’s mugshot: ‘Very disturbed’ | EUROtoday

A regulation enforcement company in Texas has come below scrutiny after it posted a mugshot of a girl with a gloved hand gripping her jaw, elevating considerations that she had been doubtlessly mistreated in custody.

Harris County Constable Precinct 2 posted a mugshot on its Facebook web page earlier this week of Fant Jomecia, 28, who had been accused of trespassing at a Houston condo complicated.

The picture confirmed Jomecia wanting upwards with a gloved hand below her chin and urgent into her cheeks.

A press release accompanying the publish – which has since been deleted – stated Jomecia had been taken into custody and booked into Harris County Jail with out incident.

The Independent has contacted Harris County Constable Precinct 2 and the Harris County District Attorney’s Office for remark.

Some of those that got here throughout the mugshot on-line have been alarmed. “She absolutely shouldn’t be touched. If a person doesn’t cooperate they stay in holding & possibly get disorderly conduct charges,” one wrote.

“I’m very disturbed by this picture,” another added. “I don’t like the force by the officer holding her aggressively like that. It’s not necessary. If she doesn’t want to cooperate, place her alone until she’s ready to do so. But, do not forcefully do it. Not okay, ever. She’s a human being. No matter what she is accused of.”

The case against Jomecia was later dismissed, according to a county database. On Saturday, Harris County jail records did not include anyone with the name Fant Jomecia in custody.

The district attorney’s office requested the case be dropped “in the interest of justice,” according to court records obtained by the Atlanta Black Star.

The Independent has contacted Jomecia for comment.

Harris County and Houston have faced scrutiny over their policing and detention practices in the past.

An ongoing 2025 lawsuit in opposition to Harris County accuses a gaggle of detention officers of putting a feminine inmate dozens of occasions in a 2023 altercation that guards allegedly provoked.

In 2024, three officers have been charged with assault for allegedly leaving an inmate in a coma after a beating in a Harris County jail, although the case was later dropped for inadequate proof.

Harris County has lengthy struggled with understaffing in its jails. Since 2019, the county has been below a federal consent decree relating to its bail practices, permitting most individuals accused of misdemeanors to be launched with out cost.

The settlement happened to settle a 2016 lawsuit, which alleged that Houston was successfully penalizing individuals for being poor in the event that they didn’t have bail cash, violating their constitutional rights. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has pushed to finish the consent decree.

Since 2013, a majority of these killed by Houston police have been Black individuals, a disproportionate charge in comparison with metropolis demographics, in keeping with the Mapping Police Violence database.