A couple of months ago video of a Fort Worth, Texas police officer clearly escalating a situation that resulted in him arresting a mother and her teenage daughter surfaced on YouTube. In the video police officer William Martin arrives on the scene where an angry mother is accusing a middle-aged white man of choking her seven-year-old son for littering. The man pretty much admits that he assaulted the child. Instead of arresting the adult who assaulted a child, police officer Martin tells the child’s mother Jacqueline Craig:
Why don’t you teach your son not to litter.
Things go downhill from here as the women is angry and then officer Martin decides to turn this event into a fake “resisting arrest” charge. Those charges were later dropped since the video showed clearly that Martin is a lying coward of a man. Those charges were dropped when a second video leaked out showing officer Martin’s own body cam footage along with files showing that Martin had a history of being a racist asshole. Martin was suspended for 10 days and like any white supremacist, believes he didn’t do anything wrong because these people are clearly not white. He’s lawyered up and his lawyers are pushing for a Trump-style witch hunt for the “whistleblowers” in this case.
"It's their duty," said Daffron. "He [Martin] is punished daily in the public eye and on the internet."
She said her client is apologetic for what happened, and his life has changed drastically since the video went viral.
"There have been threats on his life and his safety," Daffron said.
In a motion filed earlier Tuesday, Martin's team stated in paperwork that "...Martin has lost all faith in the Fort Worth Police Department" because of the leak.
If you look closely in my right hand I’m playing a song I wrote called “I don’t give a fuck about your feelings, snowflake” on a tiny little violin. Remember, Martin has not been reprimanded nor has he been fired. He was suspended for 10 days only. But, an investigation is underway and those being investigated seem to be getting serious consideration for their infractions.
Two police commanders in Texas have been temporarily replaced as investigators determine who leaked police video and other material in the controversial arrest of a black woman and her daughters by a white Fort Worth police officer.
You don’t get to go after whistleblowers if the crimes that they reveal go unpunished. That’s just logic, and while Texas police have had all kinds of issues with the public recording their abuses of power, we need the “good apples” in the police to be able to help earn back the public’s trust.