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MOAB – As a Grand County sheriff's deputy searches for a shoplifting suspect in July, a rope repeatedly pops into view of her body camera, sometimes coiled in her hand and other times twirling in the air ahead of her.
The unusual sight draws questions from observers in Moab, and deputy Amanda Edwards answers them in an upbeat tone, telling them she's looking for an African American man.
"Are you going to lasso him?" one observer asks.
"That was my plan, man," the deputy responds in the video. "I mean, it's better than running, right?"
Edwards later wrote in a report that she "replied to each individual in a joking manner" and did not actually expect to find the man on July 10, according to documents KSL obtained through a public records request.
Nonetheless, advocates within Utah's Black community told KSL the video evokes the nation's history of white law enforcers apprehending men and women who escaped slavery, using ropes and whips to do so. The video calls to mind the widespread lynchings of Black men named as suspects in crimes, they said, whether carried out by law enforcers or others.
