Texas cops mistakenly pull over, arrest woman with 4 small children inside car

[Chemisse]

61. I just watched the video clip and I think this may have been an understandable mistake.

It's dark out, so the color of the car may not have been clear until the stop. That also means the witness report of the other car may not have been accurate in color.

The cop car was a ways behind the stopped car. It looks like, rather than go up to the car and look in, they stayed back and ordered the driver out of the car (which would be safer if someone in the car was armed). So they didn't know the car was loaded with children until a few minutes later when one of them got out.

They handcuffed the mom, which seems outrageous, unless you consider she could have had a carload of armed men with whom she was conspiring. If left unconstrained, she could have run off, sabotaged the cops in some manner, or perhaps run back to the car and driven off.

They weren't rude or rough with her, as far as I could tell, and the specter of the two cops trying to sooth a bunch of terrified children was rather comical (not that it was funny that the kids were scared, of course).

Now the proper thing for a police force to do, if it wants to 'serve and protect' its community, is make a gesture to make up for the mistake, like calling the next day and inviting the whole family out for ice cream cones - or some such thing that would sooth things over and take the edge off the trauma.