Texas mom arrested after calling police for help

FORT WORTH, Texas - Activists are planning to rally Thursday evening because of a video that shows a Fort Worth officer arresting a woman who called him for help.

The video was posted on Facebook Wednesday evening. It shows a woman named Jacqueline Craig explaining to an officer that she called police because a man had tried to choke her young son for littering.

“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… you could have came to me. You don’t put your hands on my son,” Craig tells the officer.

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

“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 escalates. Craig gets upset about the officer questioning her ability to raise her children and the officer threatens to arrest her for yelling at him.

Craig’s daughter steps between them to push her mother away and that’s when the officer pulls out his stun gun, takes Craig to the ground and handcuffs her.

“Don’t move. Don’t move,” she yells at her children.

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