Fort Worth Police Violently Arrest Black Mom (and Daughters)

[deuce king]

The cop should be fired as he is a detriment to the community.

 

[dathbgboy]

Who's back up account is that?

Edit:

Seen he's been banned already

They keep doing this because they know all black americans will do is cry, pray, and forgive. They don't respect anything but force.

 

[King of Trash Style]

They keep doing this because they know all black americans will do is cry, pray, and forgive. They don't respect anything but force.

 

[starboy]

 
We're going to see an uptick on police brutality with a focus on black women in 2017.

Mark my words. 

 

[starboy]

And another one 

http://www.complex.com/life/2017/01...er-slamming-female-high-school-student-ground

 

[hand2handking]

 

[h1]Texas Police Officer Suspended For 10 Days Over Woman's Forceful Arrest[/h1]
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...ended-for-10-days-over-womans-forceful-arrest

 

[hand2handking]

Charges dropped against mother, daughter in viral Fort Worth arrest video

http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/tarr...er-in-viral-fort-worth-arrest-video/393564093

Fort Worth Police have dropped the charges against the mother and daughter seen in a viral video being arrested last month.

Cell phone video of the arrests of Jacqueline Craig and her teen daughter spread online in December. Craig had called Fort Worth Police to report that a man had choked her 7-year-old son.

An argument escalated between Craig and Officer William Martin, who eventually pulled out his Taser and put Craig, her daughter Brea Hymond and a third female in custody.

Craig, 46, and Hymond, 19, each faced charges of resisting arrest search or transport. Those charges were dropped Thursday, over a month later.

“We’re an agency that believes in procedural justice. And with procedural justice, everything doesn’t happen overnight,” Fort Worth Police Chief Joel Fitzgerald said Thursday. “This decision didn’t happen in a vacuum. My decision to pull back these charges was something that I thought was right, something that we owed the community and the Craig family in particular.”



"We stand in support of the Chief's decision to handle this case at the city level," read a statement from Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price. "This is the most appropriate avenue to address the charges. [...] I am committed to the restorative process needed to heal any breach of trust in our community."

No parts of the case will be referred to a grand jury, News 8 learned. Initially, the actions of the officer, the Craig family and the neighbor were going to be sent to a grand jury. All of those referrals were withdrawn since no felony-level offenses occurred, according to a county spokesperson.

Multiple protests have been organized in the last month calling for Martin’s firing. The officer was suspended 10 days without pay and returned to work this week. He won't return to his assignment in the Rock Garden neighborhood where the arrests occurred.

Fitzgerald said Martin will go through "a tremendous amount of re-training."

Footage from Officer Martin’s bodycam showing the arrests also surfaced Thursday. Fort Worth Police are investigating how that video became public. At a press conference Thursday morning on an unrelated manner, the department did not answer questions about the bodycam footage.

In the days following the arrest, Fitzgerald said he was “disappointed” in the initial arrest video and said Martin acted “rude” toward the family, but stopped short of labeling it as racism.

 

[nawghtyhare]

that cop a **** boy
that department is full of **** boys
and anyone who doesn't agree is a **** boy

 

[hand2handking]

Fort Worth Officer in Viral Video Explains His Controversial Arrests
Officer William Martin says he has "pet peeve" against littering

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/F...lains-His-Controversial-Arrest-415264133.html

The Fort Worth police officer who was suspended for ten days after his controversial arrests of a mother and her daughters gave his side of what happened in an interview with department investigators.

Officer William Martin, who is white, said his arrests of Jacqueline Craig, who is black, had nothing to do with race.

The incident occurred Dec. 21 when Martin was called to a neighborhood dispute in South Fort Worth.

Craig’s neighbor called police to report her 8-year-old son had littered in his yard and the boy’s family was threatening him.

Craig claimed the neighbor had choked her son.

In his interview with internal affairs investigators, Martin said he has something against people who litter.

"Littering is kind of one of my pet peeves,” Martin said. “It's like people driving with no insurance. You know, when I pull someone over and they don't have insurance or anything. It just drives me nuts when I see somebody throwing a McDonald's bag out of the car when they're going down the freeway."

The city released a video of Martin’s interview under the Texas open records law.

The officer asked Craig why she didn’t teach her son not to litter and suggested the neighbor had the right to grab the boy.

Martin slammed Craig to the ground and arrested her. She had warrants for unpaid traffic tickets.

Her two daughters also were arrested and accused of interfering.

In the internal affairs interview, Martin explained why he seemed to side with the neighbor.

“What kind of person is going to grab a random kid and choke him for no reason at all?” Martin asked. “The reason I believe the kid threw something on the ground is because no sane person would just randomly grab a kid. It didn’t make sense.”

Charges against the Craigs were dropped.

The neighbor was later charged with misdemeanor assault.

Martin is appealing his suspension and if successful, could be awarded back pay.

Meanwhile, a separate investigation into who leaked Martin’s body camera footage and discipline record continues.

 

[hand2handking]

Fort Worth Police Officer's Excessive-Force Ruling Appeal Hearing Ends
Testimony in appeal hearing reveals turmoil in department

Fort Worth Police Officer William Martin testifies during his appeal hearing for a 10-day suspension related to the controversial arrest of a woman and her daughters that was posted on social media and quickly went viral.

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/F...rce-Ruling-Appeal-Hearing-Ends-428979933.html

Testimony has ended in the appeal of a Fort Worth police officer suspended for using excessive force against a woman and her daughters in a video-recorded arrest.

The Fort Worth Civil Service Commission concluded Friday its four-day hearing of Officer William Martin's appeal of his 10-day suspension.

Jacqueline Craig called police Dec. 21, 2016, to report that a neighbor choked her 7-year-old son for allegedly littering in his yard. In the video, Martin and Craig exchange heated words and Martin wrestles Craig and a daughter to the ground. He presses a stun gun into Craig's back before pointing it at her daughter and appears to kick her into his patrol car.

Testimony in the hearing on Friday revealed the turmoil that's been bubbling in that department for months.

The department's former spokesman said that command staff wouldn't let him release key information to the public, including that Craig's neighbor had called police to report a disturbance with the Craig family before Craig called saying her son had been choked.

Martin, who is white, has been criticized for speaking to the white neighbor before Craig and her family, who are black.

Sgt. Marc Povero said that Martin approached the neighbor first because he was the first to call 911. Povero believes that releasing that information would have refuted a "false narrative."

"That was my job to uphold the image of the police department," Povero said. "I felt an opportunity to do that with facts, not opinion, and I was not able to do that."

In his testimony this week, Martin admitted that he escalated the situation when he asked Craig why she didn't teach her son not to litter, instead of checking if the boy was OK when she said he'd been choked. Martin also questioned why littering didn't give Craig’s neighbor a right to touch her son.

Capt. Vance Keys also testified Friday. He's one of two former assistant/deputy chiefs demoted for allegedly leaking Martin's body camera video.

Martin's attorney has also accused Keys of interfering with the investigation, including trying to get Craig released from jail the first night after seeing the viral video but before all the facts were gathered.

Keys denies interfering with the case or leaking anything.

After up to four weeks of exchanging written briefs, a decision on the officer's appeal will then come within 30 days.

 

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Attorneys Unsuccessful in First Attempt to Settle Craig Family Excessive Force Lawsuit

http://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/community/fort-worth/article209797699.html

Attorneys representing Jacqueline Craig, the Fort Worth mother whose arrest went viral in 2016, the city of Fort Worth and the neighbor involved in the incident, earlier this month made an unsuccessful attempt to settle her civil rights lawsuit.

According to a court record, a settlement conference was held April 9 between seven people, including Craig and her attorney, Lee Merritt. The discussion was described as being done in "good faith," but the attorneys said it was too early in the process.

The group said they will continue talking and are open to mediation. In the meantime, an April 15, 2019, trial date has been set.

Craig is suing the city, Fort Worth Police Officer William Martin, and the neighbor, Itamar Vardi, as well as on behalf of three minor children. Her daughter, Brea Hymond, is also a plaintiff in the case, filed in December. She initially filed for damages against the city.

The filing gives a little further glimpse as to what happened in the December 2016 incident. A cellphone video of the arrest sparked outrage.

Craig, who is black, alleges Vardi grabbed her then 8-year-old son by the neck, pushed him to the ground and pinned him, causing a cervical sprain to his upper spine, when he refused to pick up some raisins he had thrown on the ground, the court filing said.

Craig further alleges that not only was her arrest done without probable cause, Martin, a white officer, used excessive force by "punching, kicking and slamming" her to the ground. Charges against Craig were dropped.

Martin denies any wrongdoing and has asked that he be dismissed from the case. He served a 10-day suspension.

Vardi also denies the allegations and says Craig's son gave conflicting information during the investigation and that he went to play sports after the incident and couldn't have been harmed.

Vardi was found guilty by a jury of a Class C misdemeanor charge in the case. In January, he agreed to pay $569 in court costs, a fine and do 100 hours of community service and receive six months' deferred-disposition probation, which means when completed he will have no record.