After virtually two years of what a Black man named Christian Mobley says has been stalking and harassment from Arkansas police, pulling him over a number of occasions and arresting him on frivolous expenses as he works his job as a pizza supply man, a number of cops from the identical division are actually claiming to be the victims, accusing Mobley of harassing and stalking them.
This all started after he started requesting physique digital camera footage from the Jonesboro Police Division from his a number of detainments and posting the movies on-line in an try to carry them accountable.
The kicker was when a police accountability YouTube channel named The Random Patriot posted a 25-minute video on April 8, highlighting Mobley’s problematic encounters with native police since June 2023.
Mobley was arrested at his office the next day by a Craighead County sheriff’s deputy on a warrant accusing him of stalking the Jonesboro cops. He ended up spending eight hours in jail.
On-line courtroom data from Craighead County present that Mobley is going through eight counts of stalking within the third diploma and eight counts of harassment within the third diploma, each of that are misdemeanors.
The eight “victims” listed within the case are all Jonesboro law enforcement officials: Luke Lane, David Stout, Andy Starnes, Bruce Wright, Mike Hart, Trevor Doeppfer, Michael Bush, and Stephen McDaniel.
Not less than 5 of these officers are named within the movies posted to Mobley’s YouTube channel, Jonesboro Police Debocle, who’ve been concerned in his many site visitors stops, together with Lane, Stout, Starnes, Wright and Hart.
Doeppfer seems in an 11-second video displaying Mobley strolling as much as him whereas sitting in his patrol automotive and asking him his title. The cop replied, “Trevor.”
The opposite two cops listed as victims, Bush and McDaniel, aren’t talked about by title within the captions, however they’re listed as Jonesboro law enforcement officials on the location, Gov Salaries.
Atlanta Black Star reached out to Mobley for remark, however he has not but responded. Watch the video under to see a couple of of the site visitors stops, together with his newest arrest for stalking and harassing the identical officers who had been harassing and stalking him.
The Harassment
It began on June 27, 2023, when Starnes pulled over Mobley as a result of one among his brake lights was not working, then ordered him out of the automotive to look him, telling him it was a “excessive drug site visitors space.”
Starnes requested to look the automotive, however Mobley refused, which is his constitutional proper, however the cop apparently took it as an insult as a result of they’ve been concentrating on him ever since.
Starnes referred to as for backup and for a police canine to smell across the automotive, however the canine detected no medication, and Mobley was allowed to depart with a quotation for not carrying a seatbelt and a warning for the brake mild.
Court docket data present he pleaded responsible to the seatbelt violation, paying a $45 advantageous.
The video from the second encounter is from March 3, 2024, and exhibits Stout pulling him over for unspecified causes though he will be heard inside his automotive telling one other officer that Mobley stopped instantly in entrance of him, inflicting him to slam on his brakes, leading to all his private gadgets from his automotive seat, together with his cellphone, ending up on the automotive ground.
However the video posted doesn’t present that. As an alternative, it exhibits Stout strolling as much as him along with his hand on his gun, then detaining him for about 20 minutes earlier than permitting him to depart. There’s nothing from that date in his courtroom recordsdata that exhibits he was cited for something.
Three months later, on June 5, 2024, Mobley was pulled over once more, this time by Jonesboro police officer Lane. He was accused of driving with out insurance coverage, which Mobley stated was false, because the automotive was a rental. He was not cited however detained for nearly quarter-hour.
Three months after that, on Oct. 28, 2024, Mobley was handcuffed and detained after approaching a cop to ask him questions, accused of trespassing. Mobley complained that he was leaving after being advised to take action, and the officer detained him as a substitute of letting him depart. Video exhibits the officer then soliciting a supervisor from the property to have Mobley barred from the premises.
The next month, on Nov. 24, 2024, he was pulled over once more in entrance of his job, Papa John’s, and accused of creating a proper flip with out signaling for 100 toes. Nonetheless, that was additionally a lie, based on the YouTube police accountability web site, Lackluster, which additionally reported on the harassment in opposition to him, and in contrast the video to Google Maps displaying he had turned on his flip sign at the least 200 toes earlier than making the flip into his job.
He then started acquiring the physique and sprint cam movies from police, posting his first video on Dec. 6 and the second video on Dec. 9 of final 12 months.
He was pulled over once more on Dec. 20 whereas delivering pizzas for Papa John’s. He was accused of creating an unlawful flip and detained for greater than 10 minutes earlier than being launched with a quotation.
Two days later, on Dec. 22, he was pulled over once more whereas delivering pizzas and arrested for obstructing. He spent three nights in jail. His automotive was impounded, and he misplaced his job at Papa John’s.
Then on April 8, 2025, whereas working a brand new supply job at Marco’s Pizza, he was pulled over by the Craighead County sheriff’s deputies and arrested for the harassment and stalking warrant, which got here as a shock to him. The deputies additionally advised him he had a “no contact” order forbidding him from speaking to these cops.
“What are you speaking about?” Mobley requested. “What is that this about?”
The deputies repeatedly advised him he had a warrant and a legal summons.
“A warrant for what?” Mobley requested. “A legal summons for what?”
“I shouldn’t have a warrant, I paid all my fines I’m alleged to pay.”
Mobley has launched a GoFundMe to lift cash to struggle the costs and thus far has raised greater than $11,000.
“The Random Patriot put out a video of me being focused by the Jonesboro Police Division,” Mobley explains on the GoFundMe web page.
“The following day, April 9, 2025, whereas within the parking zone of my office, I used to be approached by two Craighead County Sheriff Deputies L. Norman and J. Wright and arrested. Eight officers inside the Jonesboro Police Division filed a ‘No Contact Order’ in opposition to me in retaliation. I used to be then arrested and brought to jail. I spent eight hours in county jail and bonded out on a ten,000 surety bond.”
Arkansas legislation defines a no-contact order as follows: “’No contact order’ means an order issued by a courtroom to a defendant at or after his or her first look on expenses as described beneath Rule 8.1 of the Arkansas Guidelines of Prison Process, which “prohibits the defendant from contacting instantly or not directly an individual in any method or from being inside a sure distance of the individual’s dwelling or place of employment.”
