The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has released bodycam video of a controversial confrontation involving deputies outside a Lancaster grocery store as it faces excessive force questions.
The department says deputies were apprehending a man and woman accused of shoplifting inside the store."You are not under arrest, you are being detained," responded the deputy.After placing the man in handcuffs, the deputies then walk toward the woman, who was recording the encounter. They attempt to grab her arm, but she pushes the deputies away."Stop. Stop!" the deputy said. She then screams after being thrown to the ground.
In that video, the man who was being arrested yelled, "Don't slam her down like that," and claimed the woman has cancer. Tom Yu, an attorney for the deputies, said the deputies were dispatched to deal with what they understood to be a robbery in progress in which the suspects had allegedly threatened store employees.
He said if the woman had complied with deputies' demands, they would not have had to use force to take her down. "There's a narrative of saying, 'The deputies struck her down because she was recording,'' said Yu. "She's not an innocent bystander. She's involved. She's detained in this robbery investigation.""The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has opened an investigation into this incident.
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