Posted on 08/25/2014 6:37:18 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Police in Texas have admitted they were wrong to draw their guns on a mother of four when they pulled over the family car early this month, but they won't apologize.
Kametra Barbour was told to exit her vehicle and she was handcuffed at gunpoint as her children watched from the backseat, dashcam footage shows.
The police only lowered their weapons after her six-year-old son got out of the car with his hands up, asking the officers, "Are we going to jail?"
A child is heard crying and screaming on the footage, as an officer tells her, "Stop crying. It's OK. It's OK. Everything's fine now."
ABC News reports the officers were responding after reports of four black men waving a gun out of a beige or tan-coloured Toyota. Barbour was driving a burgundy Nissan Maxima.
The police department defended the traffic stop as appropriate.
Tried to calm them?
Who in their right mind sees a *terrified* child who knows enough to understand “Mommy and me and my family could DIE” with “Stop crying, it’s okay, it’s okay”?”
You say “It’s okay” to a toddler who falls and bumps his head to affirm that the child is okay and that *you* are a safe person whom the toddler can trust to give reassurance that he is safe.
That’s not an affirmation of “God forgive me, I nearly did the unthinkable.” That’s “I’m in control, you can still trust me-—even though I was nearly responsible for your termination.”
That is how I saw and heard the tape.
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