COMMERCE, Texas-An east Texas city has asked a law firm to investigate the arrest of Miss Black Texas 2016 after she and officers gave differing accounts of the incident.
Carmen Ponder says Commerce police arrested her Saturday after a confrontation with a motorist who made a racist and sexist comment to her. Ponder identified the driver as Police Chief Kerry Crews.
She says officers arrested her as she left a Wal-Mart and told her to apologize to Crews, which she refused to do.