And the grand jury struggle continues…

More than a year ago, Keyarika Diggles was arrested by Jasper County Police Officers Ricky Grissom and Officer Ryan Cunningham for an unpaid parking ticket for $150. While in police custody, Diggles was given the opportunity to call her mother, whom she tried to secure the money necessary to handle her fine, but when her phone call took a little longer than Officer Grissom liked, she claimed that he cut off the call and berated her. As she told KBMT last year:

“He said, I’ve been waiting here all this time when I could have been out patrolling, waiting on you. This is stupid. He just went to cussing. And then I was like, ‘Well, you don’t have to yell at me.”

Video from the station shows Grissom forcing Diggles up against a wall at one point. When she pushes at Officer Grissom after he pushes her, Officer Cunningham is then seen grabbing Diggles by the hair, and slamming her face against a countertop. Once she is pulled down to the ground, Diggles is handcuffed and then dragged into a detox cell, where she claims she was strip searched and was provided with no medical assistance for hours. The force with which they dealt with the woman caused her to break a tooth, have some of her hair pulled out, and damage to her braces, according to her attorney. All this over a traffic ticket she was reportedly trying to pay down in monthly installments.

After the incident occurred, Officers Grissom and Cunningham lost their jobs after a city council vote; a charge of resisting arrest was dropped against Diggles; the female officer who conducted a strip search against Diggles was also fired, and according to the Daily Mail, Diggles settled a civil lawsuit against the city of Jasper and the two officers in December of 2013 for $75,000.

But what about charges?

Well, according to Houston’s FOX affiliate, 18 months after the incident happened, a Grand Jury out of Jasper County finally made a decision, and chose not to indict the officers for their attack on Diggles, quietly done just a few days before Officer Darren Wilson was let off the hook for killing Mike Brown.

Diggles’ attorney was livid about the decision, telling reporters, “I’m wondering what investigation was done because the video speaks for itself.”

Sound familiar?

He also told the FOX affiliate that the decision makes clear that officers are protected and women and minorities are always at fault for their own abuse by police–according to the law:

“I think it sends a terrible message to the public. It sends a terrible message to minorities and women that the law doesn’t seem to apply equally to civilians as it does to police officers.”