A Red Oak woman said she filed a complaint with police after she said officers responding to a domestic call tried to enter her apartment by mistake. Her Ring camera captured what appeared to be an officer kicking in her door.
"It was just super scary, I do understand that they were trying to protect the woman who was screaming across the way, but it just seemed to be very low regard for protocol and other people's safety who were not involved," said the woman who filed the complaint.
NBC 5 reached out to Red Oak Police who said it is reviewing the incident that took place at an apartment on Overlook Dr. The woman said she did talk to a lieutenant about the incident and she said she felt,"Like protocol wasn’t followed and the situation was handled very poorly and it was more so just him talking to me trying to smooth things over I felt a bit gas lit by the whole situation."
She went on to state,"My biggest concern is for one, the police did not announce themselves, I had no idea who was banging on my door, I was scared for my safety. They actually covered the ring cameras so I couldn’t see who was out there. They didn’t vocally say who it was and also just the fact that they immediately went to trying and kick in down the door," she said.
“I wasn't here alone, I had my boyfriend here, and so had he opened the door and they see a gun and they see me, especially me being a person of color, a black woman, it was very scary because I know that this really could have ended in a fatality," she said.