Distressing moment mother is pulled over in Sydney’s south-west and arrested in front of her sobbing daughter
- Police pulled over a car in Sydney’s Beverley Hills but driver refused to comply
- She insisted she’d broken no law but was being charged with ‘a police pursuit’
- Plain clothes back-up officer arrived and cops wrestled with driver to arrest her
- Driver’s sobbing daughter can be heard screaming in fear during the incident
Disturbing footage has emerged of police swooping on a car in Sydney’s southwest to arrest a mother in front of her screaming, sobbing child.
The video showed the mother repeatedly shouting ‘I do not consent, I have not committed any crime’ as one officer appears to tell her she is being arrested for ‘a police pursuit’.
A uniformed officer and plain clothes officer are then seen ripping open the door of the Toyota and wrestling with the driver and the person filming the scene.
A copy of the video on TikTok had gone viral on Thursday with more than 16,000 views and hundreds of comments, but viewers were divided on who was at fault.
Disturbing footage has emerged of police swooping on a car in Sydney’s southwest (pictured) to arrest a mother in front of a her screaming, sobbing child
A longer version of the clip on Facebook shows police having pulled over a car on King Georges Road in Beverley Hills and an officer ordering the driver to put her hands out the window while he waits for back up.
Inside the car the mother tells her daughter to ‘never consent’ as the officer continues to shout orders from a distance behind the car which are ignored by the driver.
The woman can be held telling her child: ‘I haven’t broken the law…I’ve done nothing wrong.’
Another unmarked police car arrives and a plain clothes officer draws his baton as the two men then approach the car.
Inside the car the mother tells her child to ‘never consent’ as the officer continues to shout orders from a distance behind the car (pictured) which are ignored by the driver
The officer tells her to window down her window and put her car keys on the roof but the woman insists: ‘I do not consent officer. I have not committed any crime.’
As the police move in to open the car door and drag her out, she demands: ‘What laws did I break? You’re scaring my child…’
The second officer again appears to repeat: ‘You are under arrest for a police pursuit.’
As the driver’s child sobs in terror, the other officer screams at the driver: Get out of the car’
As the mother repeatedly shouts ‘I do not consent, I have not committed any crime’, one officer appears to tell her she is being arrested for ‘a police pursuit’
The video abruptly ends as what appears to be one of the officer’s hands grabbing the phone.
TikTok user Action 24 – whose account is filled with clips of police arrests – posted the shorter clip twice but mysteriously took down the higher-viewed version on Thursday morning.
Viewers questioned the context of the arrest and what had happened before the camera started recording.
A uniformed officer and plain clothes officer are then seen ripping open the door of the Toyota (pictured) and wrestling with the driver and the person filming the scene
‘I would just question why she was being pulled over to begin with,’ wrote one. ‘Would not just be random. I’d like the other side of the story.’
Another posted: ‘If no law being broken, why are you being so difficult?
Daily Mail Australia has contacted NSW Police for comment.
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