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Last week in the Orange County town of Westminster, police arrived on Locust Street in response to a call about a woman who had allegedly assaulted another woman who was trying to rescue a dog that was running loose.
After police arrived, they called paramedics and handcuffed the suspect, 34-year-old Ciomara Garcia, whose brother told a local TV reporter that his sister is mentally ill.
A neighbor of Garcia, a young woman named Sandy Armenta, began filming the encounter on her cellphone.
Her video shows two officers grappling with a handcuffed Garcia on the grass of the parkway. As she falls to the grass, and as the officers kneel at her side, she appears to kick at one of the officers, perhaps in the groin. Whereupon he punches her fast, two times, right in the face.
A Westminster Police officer is under review after he was caught on video punching a handcuffed woman while trying to arrest her.
California law enforcement officials are investigating after a police officer was caught on video punching handcuffed a woman twice while trying to arrest her – until two fellow officers stepped in to stop him, according to authorities.
A Westminster Police officer has been placed on paid administrative leave while the Westminster Police Department (WPD) Internal Affairs Division and the Orange County District Attorney s Office review his actions against a 34-year-old assault suspect while he was arresting her on Wednesday evening, officials announced in a Thursday press release.