Unbeknownst to Clayborne, Children's Services had sought and received an emergency court order placing the children in state custody while she waited for Williams. (READ MORE: Department of Children's Services housing children – many disabled – in hospitals for 8 months) Six hours after the traffic stop, as Clayborne sat on a bench in the criminal justice center waiting for Williams' release, the five children - a breast-feeding baby now four months old along with a 2, 3, 5 and 7-year-old - were forcibly removed from her side while an officer restrained her from reaching for her crying baby, she said. Clayborne was cited but not arrested.Ĭlayborne said she was told she was free to leave with the children and could follow a THP car to find her way to the Coffee County Justice Center in order to bond Williams out. The trooper searched the family's Dodge Durango and then arrested Williams for possession of five grams of marijuana, a misdemeanor in Tennessee. A Black family from Georgia is fighting for the return of their five young children from the custody of the Tennessee Department of Children's Services after a traffic stop in Manchester, Tennessee, last month.īianca Clayborne and Deonte Williams were on Interstate 24 heading to a family funeral in Chicago - the children asleep in the back of the car.Ī Tennessee Highway Patrol officer pulled them over for "dark tint and traveling in the left lane while not actively passing," according to Feb.
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