{"id":1376437,"date":"2022-03-14T12:27:44","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T16:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1376437"},"modified":"2022-03-14T16:38:54","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T20:38:54","slug":"media-figure-says-its-convenient-police-dont-have-bodycam-footage-of-moments-beto-staffer-officer-allegedly-assaulted-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-figure-says-its-convenient-police-dont-have-bodycam-footage-of-moments-beto-staffer-officer-allegedly-assaulted-her\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Figure Says It\u2019s \u2018Convenient\u2019 Police Don\u2019t Have Bodycam Footage Of Moments Beto Staffer, Officer Allegedly Assaulted Her"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmedia-figure-says-its-convenient-police-dont-have-bodycam-footage-of-moments-beto-staffer-officer-allegedly-assaulted-her%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1376437&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Blaze Media\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/beto-orourke-staffer-gets-physical-with-blaze-medias-sara-gonzales-police-officer-manhandles-her-at-event\">Sara Gonzales<\/a> said this weekend that the Dallas Police Department told her they do not have bodycam footage during the moments Gonzales was allegedly assaulted by a staffer for Democratic Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto\u00a0O\u2019Rourke and a female officer with the DPD.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">\u201cUpdate: [Dallas PD] <\/span>has responded that there is no bodycam footage,\u201d Gonzales said via Twitter on Saturday. \u201cConvenient.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1dbjc4n r-xoduu5\"><span class=\"r-18u37iz\">\u201c[Beto O\u2019Rourke<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">\u2019s] team did not respond to a request for comment,\u201d she added. \u201cFootage will be released this week and all legal options will be pursued.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Update:<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DallasPD?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DallasPD<\/a> has responded that there is no bodycam footage. Convenient.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BetoORourke?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BetoORourke<\/a>\u2019s team did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Footage will be released this week and all legal options will be pursued. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NJsLThxged\">https:\/\/t.co\/NJsLThxged<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sara Gonzales (@SaraGonzalesTX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SaraGonzalesTX\/status\/1502744084829638660?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 12, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>When Gonzales pressed about the lack of body camera footage, DPD\u2019s Brian Martinez cited the department\u2019s General Order for Body Worn Cameras.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, due to the incident being under investigation we will not be able to disclose any further information,\u201d Martinez told Gonzales.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire contacted the department for clarification on the matter, specifically about why the officer involved did not turn on her body camera, and if she\u2019s currently being investigated for any of her actions related to the incident.\u00a0No response was received at time of publication.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_354611\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-354611\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Dallas Police Department<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Gonzales said last weekend that a female O\u2019Rourke staffer tried to rip her phone from her hands while Gonzales was at a public event for the candidate in Dallas.\u00a0Gonzales was then \u201cmanhandled\u201d by a female officer with the DPD and almost fell down nearby stairs.<\/p>\n<p>Not once was Gonzales directed not to record anything by anyone at the event, the conservative told The Daily Wire, adding that others had their phones out to record, too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEarlier today, I attended a Beto O\u2019Rourke townhall,\u201d Gonzales shared on social media at the time. \u201cI started to record an interaction between Beto &#038; a constituent while he was taking pictures. His staffer grabbed my phone &#038; tried to pry it out of my hands, then a DPD officer manhandled me unprovoked. Beto is NOT for TX.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will be consulting my attorney and requesting bodycam footage from DPD,\u201d she continued. \u201cThere were people recording on their phones all afternoon. The police gave me no directive before manhandling me and almost pushing me down the stairs. Imagine what this man would allow if elected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gonzales told The Daily Wire the staffer \u201cattacked\u201d her for filming O\u2019Rourke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI started recording at this public forum, as I had seen many others do, and was immediately attacked by Beto\u2019s staffer, who blocked me and grabbed my phone, trying to pull it out of my hands,\u201d she recalled. \u201cAs I was attempting to maintain the grip on my phone while it was being pulled from me, a black female Dallas Police officer blindsided me and forcefully grabbed my arms, pushing me away where I nearly tripped down some steps.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe had given no directive, no instruction, no warning before forcefully putting her hands on me,\u201d Gonzales said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am not a criminal and had not broken any laws. I\u2019ve never been in an incident like this with law enforcement, and have always been extremely supportive and respectful of them, but this incident affected me very viscerally. The fact that I had to wrestle my private property away from a stranger attempting to take it from me only to be manhandled by the police as if I were a criminal is deeply upsetting,\u201d she added. \u201cI feel violated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/beto-orourke-staffer-gets-physical-with-blaze-medias-sara-gonzales-police-officer-manhandles-her-at-event\">Beto O\u2019Rourke Staffer Gets Physical With Blaze Media\u2019s Sara Gonzales, Police Officer \u2018Manhandles\u2019 Her At\u00a0Event<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blaze Media\u2019s Sara Gonzales said this weekend that the Dallas Police Department told her they do not have bodycam footage during the moments Gonzales was allegedly assaulted by a staffer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1376437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1376437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1376437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1376437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1376437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}