A Fort Worth police officer was terminated after a six-month investigation into his use of force during the arrest of a 61-year-old activist who was livestreaming the incident.
A Fort Worth police officer was fired Wednesday, nearly six months after the department began investigating his use of force during the arrest of a 61-year-old woman. The incident involved Carolyn Rodriguez, a Fort Worth-based activist who regularly posts videos where she films police officers carrying out their duties.
She was livestreaming at the time of her arrest, and later released by Fort Worth police shows her being thrown to the ground by Officer Matthew Krueger after she did not comply with an order to move away from a crime scene. Krueger was one of the officers who responded to a hit-and-run crash at about 3:30 a.m. June 23 in the area of 1000 Foch Street. Police believe a suspected drunken driver crashed into another vehicle and a structure before fleeing on foot. During the investigation, a woman, later identified as Rodriguez, approached officers and began filming with her cellphone. Krueger asked her numerous times to move across the street, and she was arrested after she failed to comply, police said. During the arrest, Krueger had to use force to take Rodriguez into custody, which caused her injuries that required medical attention at a hospital. Following her release from the hospital, she was booked into jail and faced charges of interference with public duties, resisting arrest, evading arrest and making a false alarm or report. Rodriguez has 97,000 subscribers on YouTube. Following her arrest, she posted a video in which she can be seen with a black eye, bloody nose and cuts around her eye and mouth. She said she sustained a concussion and a dislocated shoulder and elbow, in addition to needing stitches in her mouth and near her eye.Rodriguez also said she had previous interactions with Krueger
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