Girl body-slammed by San Bernardino police officer speaks out

[ad_1] A 17-year-old woman mentioned she was “damage in every single place” after a San Bernardino police officer threw her to the bottom in a filmed arrest that has gone viral.

{The teenager}, recognized solely as Erin, confirmed wounds to her face and chin at a information convention Sunday.

“I’m simply in loads of ache,” she mentioned in footage broadcast by ABC-7. “My head, my complete physique. I’m not the identical particular person I used to be.”

In a video circulated extensively on social media, three officers stand guard whereas a fourth tries to handcuff Erin, then slings her to the bottom face first.

The particular person filming yells, “Hey!” and walks towards the woman, who's mendacity on the asphalt bleeding. Two officers prolong their batons and yell for the particular person filming to again up.

Erin’s mom, Tanya Brownridge, mentioned she needed a straight reply from the San Bernardino Police Division in regards to the arrest — and hasn’t gotten one.

“They gave us three completely different tales,” Brownridge mentioned on the information convention. “One to me, one to my mother, one to my sister. I simply need justice. That’s it.”

In an unsigned assertion posted on the division’s Fb web page, San Bernardino police officers mentioned Erin was arrested the afternoon of Could 21 within the 500 block of West 2nd Avenue.

An officer detained {the teenager} on suspicion of trespassing and “trying to battle others,” the assertion mentioned.

The officer, who wasn’t recognized, cuffed one in all Erin’s fingers earlier than she tried to drag away, prompting him to make use of a “take down maneuver,” the officers mentioned.

Erin was handled at a hospital for a lower chin and scraped face, the officers mentioned. They added that officers use power “based mostly on conduct, not on age, gender or race.”

Supervisors are actually reviewing whether or not the officer’s actions had been “obligatory, affordable and inside coverage,” the officers mentioned.