Body-worn camera footage from federal lawsuit filed against El Paso County sheriff by woman who claims excessive force was used during a traffic stop and arrest for resisting. Charges later dismissed.
A Pennsylvania woman needed spinal fusion surgery after two El Paso County sheriff’s deputies and a sergeant used “unreasonable and excessive force” when they slammed her to the ground, tased her in the buttocks and slammed her head in the back of a patrol car after a traffic stop went awry, a pending federal lawsuit contends.
The lawsuit states that a body camera on one of the deputies that was inadvertently left on filmed the deputies, one of them smirking, later talking about how one of them “power-bombed her through the concrete,” with the other deputy stating he had “tased her in the butth -.”