Fort Worth Officer Explains Pepper Spray Incident In Report
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FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) - Fort Worth Police released details regarding the incident earlier this month when an officer pepper sprayed a group of bikers passing by while the officer was conducting a traffic stop. The incident was captured on video by a passing biker.
It happened along U.S. 287 near I-35W Sunday, March 13.
Bikers reported the incident to the Fort Worth Police Department and Officer W. Figueroa, a six-year veteran, was removed from uniformed patrol and up on administrative duty pending the investigation.
In police documents requested by CBS 11, Officer Figueroa explained during a traffic stop, "While attempting to make contact with the driver, multiple motorcycles would not vacate the lane closest to my marked patrol car. I deployed my pepper spray into the lane closest to me at which point approaching motorcycles began to vacate the lane allowing me to conduct a traffic stop."
Figueroa also said that some of the people in the car he pulled over were also exposed to the pepper spray.
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