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- The black man who was led by a rope by two white police officers on horseback has spoken out about videos of the arrest, saying he was overcome with shame by the footage.
- "It came back and hurt me because I did not know I was getting video recorded by the public. Now I feel embarrassed," Neely told the Houston Chronicle in an interview.
- He said he wasn't embarrassed during the initial August 3 arrest, but that changed when the body camera footage was released publicly.
- Neely has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, and he said he hopes the controversy will prompt a broader conversation about how police handle mentally ill suspects.
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HOUSTON (AP) — A homeless black man who was led by a rope by two white officers on horseback in a southeast Texas city said in an interview that he was overcome with shame after watching video of his arrest.
Donald Neely told the Houston Chronicle that he wasn't embarrassed as he walked between the officers' horses when he was arrested in Galveston on Aug. 3, accusing him of criminal trespass. But that changed after he saw his arrest on police body camera footage that was released publicly on Wednesday.
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