FORT WORTH, Texas - Fort Worth police are investigating how an officer handled the arrest of a mother and her two daughters after they called him for help.
The video was posted on Facebook Wednesday evening and has already been viewed by hundreds of thousands of times. It shows a woman named Jacqueline Craig explaining to an officer that she called police because her neighbor had tried to choke her young son for littering.
“My son is 7 years old. You don’t have the right to grab him, choke him for no paper that he threw. What you should have done, because we have been living here for years so you know my house is a door in between yours'. So you could have came to me. You don’t put your hands on my son,” Craig tells the officer.
“Why don’t you teach your son not to litter?” the officer replies.
“He can’t prove to me that my son littered. But it doesn’t matter if he did or didn’t. He didn’t have to put his hands on him,” Craig says.
“Why not?” the officer asks.
The confrontation escalates. Craig gets upset about the officer questioning her ability to raise her children and the officer threatens to arrest her for yelling at him.
Craig’s daughter steps between them to push her mother away and that’s when the officer pulls out his stun gun, takes Craig to the ground and handcuffs her.
“Don’t move. Don’t move,” she yells at her children.
She and others can also be heard cursing at the officer and warning him that the arrest is being recorded.
it's only a matter time before people blame her for her reaction to the cop's ****** attitude and poor handling of the situation. you're told that a 7 year old was choked by a grown ass man for throwing a piece of paper and your first thought is to shame the kid's mother? What a piece of ****
Yall keep asking for proof that black citizens are not respected in this country. Here's another one. A black child was strangled by an adult for dropping paper on the ground and the police attacks the mother instead of arresting the man who attempted to murder a child