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US white cop tackles, arrests black woman who called for help

A US police officer seen in the picture was put on restricted duty on Thursday after tackling and arresting a black woman.

A video has been released showing a white US officer tackling and arresting an African American woman who had called police for help.

Police authorities in Fort Worth, Texas, received a call Wednesday by the woman who reported assault of her 7-year-old boy by a man for alleged littering.

The officer arrived at the scene and the woman, Jacqueline Craig, was trying to explain to the cop that his son was being chocked by the man for doing nothing. However, apparently the officer did not accept the woman’s explanation, they started arguing with the officer eventually tackling and arresting the woman.

“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 come to me. You don’t put your hands on my son,” Craig tells the officer, according to the 6-minute footage posted on Facebook on Friday.

“Why don’t you teach your son not to litter?” the officer asks.

“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 escalated with the woman shouting at the officer for questioning her ability to raise her children and the cop threatening to arrest her for yelling at him.

In the meantime, the woman’s daughter intervened to push her mother away from the officer, when he pulled out his stun gun, taking Craig to the ground and handcuffing her.

Both the woman and her 19-year-old daughter, Brea Hymond, were put in jail for resisting arrest. The woman has apparently had outstanding warrants for traffic violations.

"First we would like to see the official report regarding the initial assault. Obviously, we want to see that officer removed from the force, fired and prosecuted. We want to see the original person tried and prosecuted," said Lee Merritt (pictured below), an attorney for the family.

The officer was placed on restricted duty Thursday and the investigation is still underway. Police are refusing to release body cam footage of the incident until the end of the investigation.

US police have been under harsh criticism over fatal shootings of and brutality against several African Americans in recent years.


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