Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst (R) said he was acting as a “very concerned uncle” when he called the Allen police department on Aug. 3 in hopes of getting his nephew’s wife released from jail on shoplifting charges.
Dewhurst told Austin television station KVUE on Saturday that he never had a family member arrested before and didn’t know the rules.
“How would you feel if you had two family members call and they were so distraught that they could barely talk?” Dewhurst said. “And so I simply wanted to know what the procedures were, what could be done, if anything.”
Allen police released audio of the phone call last week to Dallas television KXAS, and Dewhurst could be heard on the call demanding to talk to “the most senior police officer you have” and referring to himself as “the No. 1 pick of all the law enforcement agencies in Texas.”
“I’m the type of guy that I care for family, I care for my friends, I care for the people of Texas and I’m going to fight for them,” Dewhurst told KVUE.
