Locked up for eight days: Kamilah Brock was detained by police then sent to a mental hospital after RACIST POLICE did not believe she owned the car

Kamilah Brock was locked up for eight days in a mental hospital after cops suspected her of not being the owner of the BMW they confiscated

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A black woman claims she was 'stripped naked, drugged with lithium and sectioned' in a mental hospital for eight days after 'racist' police refused to believe she was the owner of a BMW.

Banker Kamilah Brock, 32, says she was stationary at a red light in Harlem, New York when police approached her car and quizzed her on why her hands weren't on the steering wheel.
When she replied that she was 'dancing' to music - she was taken into custody on September 12 last year, released a few hours later and told to come back the next day to collect her car.

But in the hours that ensued a bizarre set of circumstances then led to Brock's detention in a mental institution.
She says that when she went back to pick up her 2003 BMW 325CI that police did not believe that she was the rightful owner of the luxury vehicle.

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BMW owner: Kamilah Brock was dancing at the wheel of her car at a red light when police approached her, she says

She said: "I just felt like from the moment I said I owned a BMW, I was looked at as a liar.
"They put me in handcuffs and said they just need to put me in handcuffs to take me to my car.
"And I said OK, whatever it's gonna take to get to my car.
"Then EMS approached me.
"And they said we're gonna take you to your car.
"And I'm like, in an ambulance? I'm going to my car in an ambulance?
"I'm going to my car in an ambulance? I was just so confused."

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Burden of proof: Kamilah Brock posted this photo to social networking site instagram

According to medical records Ms Brock was taken to Harlem Hospital where staff tried to make her deny that she owned a BMW, was a banker, and that President Barack Obama followed her on Twitter.
It is claimed medical staff believed that Brock had Bi Polar disorder for her claims about the BMW, her job, and her social media account.
She added: "He held onto me and then the doctor stuck me in the arm and I was on a stretcher and I woke up to them taking my clothes off, specifically my underwear,' Brock told New York TV news show PIX 11.
'Then I went back out again. When I woke up the next day, I felt like I was in a nightmare. I didn't understand why that was happening to me.'

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Rights violated: Ms Brock was left with a £8,500 bill after being sectioned against her will following the BMW drama

The woman's lawyer Michael Lamonsoff insists she was telling the truth through-out her experience and that the behaviour of police was racially motivated insisting a white woman would not have been subjected to the same treatment.
She was held for eight days and landed with an £8,500 bill following the experience.
It has previously been claimed Brock was "acting irrational, she spoke incoherently and inconsistently, and she ran into the middle of traffic on Eighth Ave" during the traffic stop with police.

The NYPD previously only confirmed that Brock was taken into their custody.
She is now suing New York City Police for unspecified damages insisting her constitutional rights under the Fourth and 14th Amendments were violated and that she was a victim of racism.
She argues that she endured "unwanted and unwarranted intrusion of her personal integrity, loss of liberty [and] mental anguish" during the encounter. 

Mirror Uk