Erykah Badu will not face indecent exposure charges for shedding her clothes on a Dallas, Texas, sidewalk for a music video, a Dallas Police spokeswoman said.

Although children were nearby, no one filed a complaint against Badu after the March 17 incident, Dallas Police Senior Cpl. Janice Crowther said.

Badu stripped as she walked through Dealey Plaza and then dropped to the ground near where President John Kennedy was assassinated.

The result was a controversial video, released Saturday, for her song "Window Seat," which Badu said was "shot guerrilla style" without a full crew and in just one take on March 17.

No one who saw the incident called police, even though it happened during the day when dozens of people were visiting the popular tourist spot, Crowther said.

"But if we had had a call and would have caught Ms. Badu in the act of walking down the street taking her clothes off, she would have been charge with a Class B misdemeanor," she said.

But without a complaining witness, there is no case of indecent exposure against Badu, she said.

"It would be hard for a person who just saw the video and was not present to make a complaint," she said. "It should have been made there and then."

Badu used the microblogging site Twitter to respond to the controversy.

"there were children there. i prayed they wouldnt b traumatized," Badu tweeted.

The R&B singer said she was making a statement against "groupthink," which she tweeted is an "unwritten rule" that "i will not express my true opinion if it opposes those i love and fear."

Some fans sent their own tweets praising Badu's artistic vision. "thank you, because your being brave, i no longer feel afraid to say what i really feel," tweeted one fan to Badu on Sunday.

The video opens with a November 22, 1963, radio broadcast describing Kennedy's motorcade turning onto Elm Street just seconds before the fatal shots were fired. Badu, behind the wheel of a 1965 Lincoln Continental, parked along Kennedy's route.

A single camera focused on her as she walked toward Elm Street and the infamous book depository where Kennedy's assassin fired his rifle.

"i was petrified while shooting this video ... but liberation began to set in. i conquered many fears in that few moments," Badu tweeted.

She said she was "too busy lookin for cops" to be embarrassed by her full nudity. "i been naked all along in my words actions and deeds. thats the real vulnerable place," she tweeted.

The video does not include shouts from people off camera, she said. "they were yelling, 'THIS IS A PUBLIC PLACE : YOU OUGHTA BE ASHAMED : PUT YOUR CLOTHES ON : DAMN GIRL! etc," Badu tweeted.

More than a dozen people stood along the plaza's "grassy knoll" when Badu took off the last piece of clothing.

"the people caught in the shot were trying hard to ignore me," she tweeted.

As she reached the spot where Kennedy was first struck by a bullet, the crackle of a gunshot was heard and Badu's head snapped back and she fell to the ground as if dead.

Badu said when the camera stopped "we ran."

The singer was born in Dallas, where she is raising her three children, ages 1, 5, and 12. She tweeted to fans her 5-year-old daughter's response when she told her of her plans for the video: "she looked at me with a blank face and replied ok mama can i have another pudding?"

The video was released just days before her next album, "New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh," hits record stores. The single "Window Seat" is at 28 on Billboard's R&B/Hip Hop chart.