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Tony and Sara Stokes (Facebook photo)
R&B singer Sara Stokes and her husband Tony, who star in the BET Centric reality TV show "From the Bottom Up," claim that Warren police roughed up their teen daughter Gabrielle Stokes early Tuesday morning when they arrested her on charges of disturbing the peace and the purchase/consumption of alcohol by a minor.
Gabrielle Stokes pleaded not guilty during arraignment Tuesday, the Detroit Free Press reports.
The 19-year-old daughter, a student at Macomb Community College, was arrested at her apartment near 12 Mile and Hayes where she was having a going-away party for a friend who was moving to Texas, reports Kristen Jordan Shamus of the Detroit Free Press.
The father tells the Freep that police forcibly grabbed Gabrielle from the apartment, handcuffed her and dragged her down stairs.
"It was . . . white cops, and they seen a bunch of black kids and mixed kids," Tony Stokes told the paper. "This excessive use of force [expletive] has to stop because black lives do matter. ... We will be filing a lawsuit against the City of Warren and those officers.
Gabrielle and Sara Stokes (Facebook photo)
