A video showing the arrest of a woman and her daughter in Fort Worth, Texas, has sparked outrage on social media. (Facebook/Porsha Craver)
A Facebook video showing the arrests of a mother and daughter by a police officer in Fort Worth, Texas, has sparked outrage on social media, with many claiming wrongdoing by the cop.
The five-minute video was posted Wednesday night by Porsha Craver.
In the video, a woman, identified as Jacqueline Craig, can be heard telling an officer that she called police because a neighbor had grabbed her son.
Craig tells the officer the man had accused her son of littering, and then assaulted him after her son did not listen to him. As the officer and the woman talk, things quickly grow heated and the officer eventually arrests her and her daughter.
You can watch the video below:
According to New York Daily News columnist Shaun King, Jacqueline Craig and her daughter remained in custody Wednesday night. It is not known what charges they are facing.
The officer has not been identified. The Fort Worth Police Department said in an email to Heavy that they will be reviewing the report on Thursday and will release a formal statement after that.
The video was posted on Facebook about 8 p.m., and had been viewed more than 71,000 times three hours later.
According to Craver, the incident occurred on the southwest side of Fort Worth. The video begins after a police officer, who is white, responded to the call. Only one officer is seen in the video.
The officer seen in the video has not been identified. (Facebook/Porsha Craver)
The video begins with the officer speaking with a white man who has been identified by the family as a the neighbor they say assaulted Craig’s young son for littering.
The officer then walks over to Craig and asks her “what’s going on with you?” She tells the officer the man “grabbed and choked” her son. She tells the officer the man grabbed the boy because he “defied” him. She says the man should have come to her instead of “putting your hands on my son.”
The officer then tells Craig, “why don’t you teach your son not to litter?”
She responds, “He can’t prove to me that my son littered, but it doesn’t matter if he did or didn’t, it doesn’t give him the right to put his hands on him.”
The officer then says, “why not?” As the conversation gets more heated, the officer asks Craig why she is yelling, and she says because he “pissed her off.”
He then tells her, “if you keep yelling at me you’re going to piss me off and I’m going to take you to jail.”
Craig’s daughter then walks toward her mother and the officer, appearing to try to calm her mother down, and the officer grabs her from behind. Craig then yells at the officer not to grab her, and the scene turns chaotic.
The video then cuts to Craig on the ground with the officer kneeling in her back, his Taser in his hand. He points the Taser at a young girl, and then also at Craig’s daughter, who scrambles away as the officer handcuffs Craig. He then goes and handcuffs Craig’s daughter, before taking them both to his SUV.
He then turns his attention to the woman recording the incident, and runs at her, knocking the camera out of her hand and telling her, “you’re going to jail too.”
Porsha Craver, who posted the video, then addresses the camera, saying, “I just want you all to see how the Fort Worth Police Department treated my family after calling them for a racist man putting his hands on a 7-year-old, my 7-year-old little cousin, who couldn’t defend himself. When they called Fort Worth Police, this is what we got. These motherf*cking racist-a*s officers, who clearly are not here for us. Racist b*tches. … We want everybody to see this s*it, how Fort Worth Police Department is here to treat people, and what this racist a*s police did. He deserves to lose his job and this is our goal.”
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Tom Cleary is a reporter and editor for Heavy.com. Tom was a breaking news reporter at the Connecticut Post and an editor at the Register Citizen and New Haven Register. He can be reached by email at Tom.Cleary@Heavy.com. Follow him on Twitter @tomwcleary.December 22, 2016 1:07 am
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