FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF News) – A City of Fort Worth panel has declined to investigate the leakage of a police officer’s bodycam video.
Officer William Martin’s attorney, Terry Daffron, told the panel that her client does not trust the Fort Worth Police Department after the video and his personnel file were made public and pleaded with them to intervene.
Martin received a 10-day suspension after his arrest of Jacqueline Craig and her two daughters went viral.
Craig had initially called police last December to report that her neighbor had allegedly choked her 7-year-old son for littering.
Despite Daffron’s request and Martin’s concerns, The Civil Service Commission ruled that the Fort Worth Police Department will investigate the leak.
Daffron said that Martin had received death threats amid the backlash over Craig’s arrest. A group of citizens attended Tuesday night’s city council meeting and demanded that Martin be fired.
Craig’s attorney announced last week that he is planning to file a federal lawsuit against the City of Fort Worth. Lee Merritt said his client and her family have been routinely humiliated by the Fort Worth Police Department.
“For over a month, Craig and her family have been under the cloud of criminality. She was taken to jail. She was placed in handcuffs and placed in a cell with her daughters. Anybody who has had to experience that unjustly knows how humiliating that process is,” he said.
Daffron said she is considering appealing the commission’s decision.
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