Landry Thompson, 13, is a white girl from Tulsa, Oklahoma who recently traveled to Houston, Tex. with her two African American male dance instructors. In town for a dance class, the trio stopped at a gas station to check their GPS for directions to their hotel when Thompson was pulled from the car as she napped, handcuffed and taken by Child Protective Services. One of her guardians, Emmanuel Hurd, plead with authorities alerting them he had a notarized letter. She was held for 11 hours, leaving her mother, Destiny, outraged and demanding an apology. She tells media, “I was horrified. She was with the people I wanted her to be with. She was with people I trusted. Now she was taken away from those people and in a shelter with people I didn’t know.”
