Posted on 01/29/2017 7:07:10 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
Friday afternoon, Fort Worth city leaders gathered to denounce the leaking of police body-camera video and documents, as well as to promise that systemic changes will be recommended to the Fort Worth Police Department in light of a December incident that remains in the headlines.
On Dec. 21, Fort Worth police responded to a disturbance on the city’s south side. The incident was streamed live on Facebook, and it showed Officer William Martin becoming physical with mother Jacqueline Craig and her daughters, Craig had called police for help after she said a neighbor hurt her 7-year-old son.
Since then, Officer Martin has served a 10-day unpaid suspension and is undergoing training. But Thursday, video from Martin’s body camera was leaked to the public, as well as documents that showed he’d been looked into for use of force in 2013.
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The bigger problem is society tendencies to call police for any problem.
Any mother who can’t hand her 7 year old has bigger problems.
I believe the policeman could have handled it better.
He should have told the girl not to approach the man. If she did, she would be arrested.
Police are being asked to handle problems they should not be asked to do in the first place.
They are in impossible situations many times. They are the canary in the coal mine detecting the sickness of our society.
Rule number 1: never call the police on a family member unless it is an immidiate danger to life or health situation. They don’t show up with psychiatry manuals, they show up with guns.
...and attitudes!
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