HAYWARD, Calif. (KRON) — A father-daughter bonding second changed into a nightmare for an East Bay household after Alameda County Sheriff’s deputies handcuffed the daddy. The sheriff’s workplace says they “sympathize with the household’s frustration” after the incident.
Anthony Hudson mentioned he and his daughter have been filming a TikTok video on Friday close to the Hayward BART station when deputies confirmed up, put him in handcuffs and pointed a gun at him. His 14-year-old daughter was patted down by one other deputy.
The sheriff’s workplace mentioned they have been known as to the world by somebody who claimed to see a gun protruding from a white automobile that was occupied by a Black man. They then carried out a “high-risk site visitors investigative cease” and detained each Hudson and his daughter.
“We’re scared,” Hudson informed KRON4. “Folks get killed like this. We don’t know what’s happening. I informed her to present me the cellphone. We don’t need nothing in your possession. Nothing in your hand to trigger something to occur, a taking pictures.”
Hudson, who makes social media movies underneath the title “Tonemane,” says his daughter was filming on a cellphone outdoors of his automobile when police pulled up. He was within the driver’s seat.
Officers turned on their lights, and he claims at the very least one deputy drew a firearm whereas his daughter cried along with her fingers raised within the air.
“A tripod with a mobile phone for filming was situated. We consider the caller mistakenly recognized the mixture as a firearm. No weapons have been discovered in the course of the possible trigger search,” ACSO mentioned.
“We sympathize with the household’s frustration. It’s unlucky they needed to expertise such a detention. Nonetheless, the Alameda County Sheriff’s Workplace should deal with all requires service critically for the security of everybody in our communities,” ACSO continued.
Hudson says he was launched from {the handcuffs} with out a proof or apology. The household has since employed Legal professional Adante Pointer.
“As quickly as they obtained there on the scene, no matter their ideas have been as soon as they noticed this was a father and a baby and there have been no firearms, there was no motive to look the automobile, no motive to maintain the daddy in handcuffs in entrance of his daughter, and there was no motive for a male officer to be looking out a minor, a feminine who’s 14-years-old,” Pointer mentioned.
