NEW YORK — A Florida family is speaking out after a sheriff's deputy resigned after body camera showed him handcuffing a pregnant mother at gunpoint during a traffic stop while her children watched in fear.
The incident took place on Aug. 12 on a dark, rural road in Bradford County, Florida, northeast of Gainesville.
"When they put the gun on her, I thought they were going to shoot her," Washington's daughter, Moriah Washington, 10, told ABC News."Then, when they put the handcuffs on her, I thought they were going to take her to jail, and I got super sad and scared because I didn't know where me and my brother and my sister were going to go."
"When all of this was happening, I was really scared for my mom, and I didn't know what they were going to do to her," Washington's daughter, Saige Washington, 17, told ABC News."So, I called my dad because I wanted him to know that we were there just in case something did happen he could be there for us.""You make any movement, that will be your last mistake you're gonna make," the officer shouts.
"I didn't give him a reason for him to harm me in front of my children. And so my calmness really just came in because I was afraid for my life," she said.
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