After a family barbecue with relatives in a small historically black town outside Tallahassee, The McCloud Family was stopped by police at 2 a.m. on a dark, remote road as they were returning to their home in West Palm Beach. The all white officers separated this African-American family by locking the mother, father, son and daughter in separate squad cars. After bringing in drug dogs and finding nothing except birthday gifts and left-over barbecue in the trunk, the officers had the 15-year-old daughter strip searched in plain view on the side of the road and then forcibly took the family back to the relatives’ home, where the officers forced their way into the home, dragging an elderly relative out of bed. No drugs were ever found. The family was released without even an apology. The Rubin Firm tried this high profile case before a federal jury in Tallahassee.








