A video is starting to go viral of a woman and her daughters being arrested after she called the police to assist with a matter. The woman has now been identified as Jacqueline Craig and her two daughters. They have now been released from custody.
The video shows a Fort Worth, TX police officer antagonizing, manhandling, and then arresting the woman and her daughter. Initially, the woman called the police because a man (neighbor), who happens to be white, had allegedly assaulted her 7-year-old son for “littering”. After briefly speaking with the man, the police officer walks over to the woman and says:
“What’s going on with you?”
“My daughter and son came home, saying that this man grabbed him and choked him,” the mother said as her daughter recorded. “I came around here and asked him. I said, ‘Why did you put your hands on my son?’ He said, ‘Oh, he threw some paper and I told him to pick it up.’ He said he defied him and that’s why he did it…you don’t have the right to choke somebody’s son. My son is 7-years-old, you don’t have the right to grab him and choke him.”
In response to the mother’s obvious concerns and distress, the police officer asked in a condescending tone, “Why don’t you teach your son not to litter?”
“He can’t prove to me that he did or didn’t, but it doesn’t matter,” the mother said. “That doesn’t give him the right to put his hands on him.”
The officer then responded, “Why not?”
Things now go to another level. At this point, the mother, visibly upset told the officer that he didn’t know what she taught her children, made it clear that he was wrong for interrogating her in the manner he was instead of the man that assaulted her 7-year-old son.
The officer, completely suffering from selective memory forgetting that he had not just suggested that the man had a right to assault her child, asked, “Why are you yelling?”
She explained that she was “pissed off” that he would even suggest that her son deserved to be assaulted and questioned her parenting skills, to which he responded, “If you keep yelling at me, you’re going to piss me off and I’m going take you to jail.”
When the woman’s daughter attempted to get in between her and the officer, he pushed her out of the way, grabbed the mother pushed her to the ground, pressed a Taser into her back, then pointed the Taser at her family.
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The man who allegedly assaulted the child stood by quietly as the police officer treated a group of black women, mother and daughters, like they were nothing but violent criminals.
The police officer eventually detained the person recording the assault and took her phone.
At the beginning of the video, you can hear one of the daughter’s say, “Don’t yell, mama.”
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In certain cases, we would request to see more information before jumping to conclusions. However, this video gives me all the information I need to see this was unjustified. The way this officer escalated and antagonized this woman was unprofessional. He dismissed the alleged violence by a man towards a 7-year-old and directed his focus and questioned parenting skills to a concerned mother. His job is not to be a judge and jury, but to protect and serve when citizens call you while in distress. He failed big time. Three innocent people are still sitting in jail for calling the police to protect them.
This situation is one of the many reasons why, unfortunately, people of color are afraid to call the police or interact with them. This police officer was nothing but a coward with a gun displaying aggression while abusing his power. This is why people say black lives matter. It is not about an organization, it is literally about the statement. Black lives do matter and this officer that day showed it didn’t.
We are still waiting for a statement from the Fort Worth police department on the matter.
