Fort Worth Police Officer Brutalizes Black Mom Who Called for Help After Her Son Was Allegedly Choked

It seems a week doesn’t go by when we don’t witness on film another person of color being brutalized, murdered and victimized by the police. This time, it’s in Fort Worth, Texas, when a black woman called the police to report that a white man choked her seven-year-old son.

Instead of helping the 46-year-old mother who called the police or the child who claimed to have been physically abused, the white police officer became confrontational with the mother. He grabs the woman, slams to the ground and arrest her and her two teenaged daughters, one of whom filmed the incident on Facebook Live.

This mother reports TO THE POLICE in Fort Worth that a grown man choked her son. In seconds, he is brutalizing HER and her family. pic.twitter.com/kDf7dcAyxW

— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) December 22, 2016

According to the New York Daily News, Jacqueline Craig explained to the officer that a white man had tried to choke her son because the child “threw some paper” and didn’t pick it up. When the dust had settled, Craig, her 19-year-old daughter Brea Hymond, and her 15-year-old daughter were arrested and taken to jail, according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

The Fort Worth Police Department refuses to identify the police officer at this time but wrote in a statement, “The involved officer has been placed on restricted duty status by the Chief of Police pending the outcome of the internal investigation.”

Statement regarding Facebook Video: pic.twitter.com/omjlHFnXxy

— Fort Worth Police (@fortworthpd) December 22, 2016

Craig is being held for outstanding warrants for traffic violations in Irving, Texas in addition to the latest charges of resisting arrest and failing to identify as a fugitive, according to Fox 4. Hymond was charged with resisting arrest and interfering with public duties. The white man who allegedly choked the seven-year-old boy was not arrested.