Kells Fyffe-Marshall, meanwhile, also linked the incident to race.
She wrote that ‘about 10 seconds’ after they carried their luggage into the cars, ‘we were surrounded by 7 cop cars’.
She went on: ‘They locked down the neighborhood and had us standing in the street. Why? A neighbour across the street saw 3 black people packing luggage into their car and assumed we were stealing from the house. She then called the police.’
Fyffe-Marshall also contended that the ‘cops admit that the woman’s reason for calling the police was because we didn’t WAVE to her as she looked at us putting our luggage into our car from her lawn’.
She said they were held ‘for 45 minutes’ while the police ‘figured it out’.
According to the New York Daily News, Prendergast is now suing the police department.
She is reportedly being represented by Jasmine Rand, a lawyer based in Miami.