The Latest: Lawyer criticizes decision not to fire officer
An attorney for a Texas woman arrested after reporting that her son had been choked by a neighbor says the 10-day suspension of the arresting officer is intolerable.
Merritt had asked that the Fort Worth police officer, who can be seen in a viral Facebook video wrestling Craig to the ground before arresting her and her two daughters, be fired and charged with a crime.
A Texas District Attorney will present to a grand jury the results of an investigation of an incident in which a white Fort Worth Police officer slammed a black mother to the ground.
Sam Jordan, a spokeswoman for the Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney's Office, says the case will be presented to a grand jury in its entirety, but a date had not been set as of Monday.
A white Texas police officer has been suspended without pay for 10 days, but will not be fired, after an internal investigation of a cellphone video in which he is seen wrestling a black mother and her daughter to the ground and arresting them.
Police in Texas say an investigation is complete into a confrontation captured on cellphone video in which a white officer wrestled a black woman to the ground before arresting her and two of her teenage daughters.