Cops Pull Mother with Four Children Over at Gun Point, Caught on Camera, No Apologies

Police in Forney, Texas, were
looking for a tan-colored Toyota from which someone was reported to
be waving a gun around when they pulled over Kametra Barbour, who
was driving with her four young children, in a red Nissan. They
pulled Barbour over at gunpoint, forcing her and her children to
put their hands up. Police admit they made a mistake but aren’t
going to apologize, because officer safety.

WFAA reports:

Was Barbour treated properly by the police?

“For the nature of the call – that a weapon was involved – yes,”
Detective [Michael] Clay said.

Barbour understands officers were making quick decisions that
night. Nonetheless, she is still deeply troubled.

“I need you to make sure you have all the facts, because you
can’t just say, ‘Okay, I’m sorry,’ and then I’m over it. I can’t.
Every time I listen to and hear or think about it, it bothers you.
I can’t just say, ‘I’m fine. It’s okay. It’s not a big deal.’ It
is,” Barbour said.

“Quick decisions” shouldn’t be an excuse for reckless behavior.
I don’t know any amount of training that can get a cop who mistakes
a tan Toyota for a red Nissan, even at night, not to do so. We hear
a lot about “officer safety” (Conservative commentator Andrew
Malcolm
seems to defend any amount of militarization in the name of
officer safety, despite statistics showing officers
facing record low fatalities). What about the safety of people
exposed to police officers? Each of those encounters involve a
weapon.  Last week we brought you the story of an
alleged sex predator returning to the streets of Philadelphia
as a cop even though the police commissioner doesn’t think
he belongs in a uniform. (Thanks
unions!)

And here we have a department defending an officer who mistook a
tan Toyota for a red Nissan and terrorized four children in the
process. The mother remains deferential, as many Americans do,
inculcated as they are with that attitude by a pervasive “safety
first” culture that continues to ignore the threats cops pose in
favor of the wrong-headed notion that those given the authority to
use violence against us are all that stands between society and
chaos.

Watch dashcam of cops pulling Barbour over below: