'I'm sorry this occurred on my watch,' says Keller police chief following arrest of Marco Puente

For the first time publicly, Keller's newly elected mayor and police chief addressed the national outrage connected to the arrests of Marco and Dillon Puente

At the first council meeting of the year Tuesday night, Chief Brad Fortune apologized to the Puente family and the public in a special presentation.

"As your chief of police, I repeat that I'm sorry this incident occurred on my watch," Fortune said. "It should have never happened."

Body camera footage showing Marco Puente being pepper-sprayed and arrested solely for recording his son's encounter with police went viral last month following one of WFAA's reports.

[davidcollins]

The only way to stop this is make the officers who commit these acts pay the law suits. Instead of the tax payers.

[davidozuna]

Bullies MUST be terminated. Your whole department is judged by your worst officer. Imagine a citizen doing this to an officer!

[AubreyFaye]

Sorry is not enough. This will keep happening if we don’t give consequences to these cops.

[seva]

It's funny how the mayor even says, "Isolated incidents like this" can't be tolerated. When it's happening all the time its fine though? Or these isolated incidents of being filmed, and people actually taking notice? What a joke.

[jamesj]

The fact that he wasn’t fired for this is mind blowing

[robertnodge]

The only thing he is sorry about is his officer getting caught

[TheJim]

He says these are "Isolated incidents" but if you look into it there are so many more cases of stuff like this happening. And that's just what was found imagine all the crooked cops out there getting away with scummy behavior like this it's disgusting.

[SaGeOwL]

"If you want to see how really a person Is inside, give him power over other ones" - someone

[graveyardrumblers]

"As your chief of police I am sorry that this incident was recorded."

[jbirds]

Fire the officer who lied, sorry is no longer enough. It’s time to get rid of these chiefs that look silly and won’t hold their officers accountable.

[brokenarrow]

I usually support the police but this is unacceptable. He should be fired immediately! No room for police acting like this. He's a punk and a bully.

[chemdawg]

The police chief needs to be fired as well! You can see in his statement that he truly doesn't care and the fact that it took so long to punish only one deputy (who wasn't fired, just received a slap on the wrist) clearly shows his lack of care and support for the community! Fire the chief and all officers involved/on scene in the incident! I say all officers because those who were there and just stood by/went along with this are just as guilty as the ones who were hands on! Cut out the rot and replace with true community loving people/officers!

[rontiemens]

“I am so sorry we got caught.” - Chief

[vincentsprung]

The police chief needs to read off a paper that he’s “sorry” isn’t sorry at all.

[lieutenantdan]

We will investigate ourselves and figure something out that benefits us only as we're all corrupt.

[TonerLow]

It's always startling to hear the insincerity of a cop apologizing.

[joslynneburrows]

Wow just assaulted a man for doing nothing, doesn't get charged and he is still a police officer, protected species

[tommcqueen]

"I'm sorry this incident got filmed and went public. We usually get away with it."

[mattG]

Its a shame that it has to happen to a mayors son before anyone says or does anything about it.

[mr.tp]

Imagine that one year later and both those officers are still employed at that police station.