After she was issued a citation for her outfit last summer, a Louisiana woman settled a case related to the incident, according to reports this week.
“After a year of back and forth and dealing with pushback from the city every step of the way, we finally came to an agreement,” said Casey LaCaze-Lachney, per a report in The Shreveport Times cited by The Independent.
Attorney Randall T Hayes took up the case, said the report.
Last year, WWL covered how a TikTok video LaCaze-Lachney posted as a rebuttal went viral. In it, she showed off the outfit she was wearing when police gave her a ticket for indecent exposure at an outdoor festival in Winnfield. It included a crop top and a pair of jean shorts.
“At a family event, where there is alcohol being literally handed out for free… three female cops came up to me and gave me a f**king ticket,” she said in the video. LaCaze-Lachney also showed her ticket to the camera.
Her video racked up millions of views and the Winnfield Police Department first responded with “an ill-received Facebook post grousing about LaCaze-Lachney’s public complaint having a ‘negative impact on the service of our police officers,” per WWL’s report. Citing The Shreveport Times, it also said Winnfield Police Chief Ray Carpenter and city attorney Herman Castete acknowledged that she did not break any laws during a meeting with LaCaze-Lachney and her attorney.
“Can you guys believe its been a year since that incident happened? Oh my god,” LaCaze-Lachney said in a TikTok video posted last month. She said that she still had not received answers as to why she was issued a ticket.
However, LaCaze-Lachney said that they agreed to take the ticket off of her record. Additionally, she said the Winnfield would look into the ordinance officers cited as their grounds to issue her the citation.
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