Potentially disturbing video warning.
This is a video of a woman being processed in a police interrogation room after an arrest for DWI. Mysteriously, at one point during the processing, the video camera is turned off. When it is turned back on, the woman is lying in a pool of her own blood, and shortly afterwards taken away on stretcher to the hospital.
She ends up with two black eyes, two broken teeth, bruises, and, as noted, loss of lots of blood.
The officer has been fired, but is appealing the firing. His attorney claims the officer turned of the tape …in accordance with normal practice.
So far, I’ve found no explanation of what normal practice leads to turning off video taping while processing an arrestee. I suspect it is something like “When beating someone, it is normally wise to do so where no video evidence nor eye witnesses can be used against use.” I could be wrong, though – that’s just a theory. The officer explains what happened, thankfully. Again, through the officer’s attorney:
The suspect again tried to leave the room. In the process of stopping her, she fell and injured herself.
I can’t recall the last time I fell while someone tried to stop me from going through a door and I ended up in the condition shown above, but maybe you other folks can help me out on this one. Anyone got a similar experience where you fell about 10 feet away from the door you are trying to go through (at least, that’s about what it loos to me in the video) and ended up with such injuries?
[tags]DWI, Police, She fell down[/tags]