RHOME (CBSDFW.COM) – A North Texas mother says she was arrested while trying to protect her son from police.
Amy Hedtke was stopped near a gas station in Rhome. At the end of that stop, Hedtke was arrested, after shooting a polarizing 8-minute video of her encounter with police.
Hedtke is facing charges for failure to report a change of address on her license, failure to register a vehicle and failure to obey a police officer. But she says that’s not why she went to jail on Tuesday.
Hedtke says she started recording after her son got out of the car to buy a Coke at the gas station.
“As soon as he stepped out of the vehicle, the officer yelled at him to get back in the car,” she said. “That’s when I got out and said, ‘Excuse me, he’s not the one that was driving this vehicle.’”
Rhome Police Chief Brendan Davis calls that an unsafe act.
“You don’t know if that passenger is hiding drugs and they take off running. Now you have a foot chase.”
Hedke can be heard telling her son not to answer a Wise County Sheriffs Deputy, who was called in for backup.
“He should not have even identified himself,” Hedtke says of her son. “He was not the driver, not subject of investigation.
On the recording, the officer can be heard saying, “I don’t have to show you any law, let me make that clear to you.”
Defense attorney and former officer, Peter Schulte, agrees. Police don’t have to define the law to you.
“The police officer did exactly what he should have done beginning to end,” said Schulte.
Hedtke, who is described by supporters as a liberty activist, insists she was protecting her rights.
from CBS Dallas / Fort Worth http://ift.tt/1ytH9Sb
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