The Atlanta Police Division launched physique digicam footage of a current arrest of a lady after a brief video of the incident gained consideration on social media and set off accusations that the officer used extreme power.

“Do you may have IDs on you?” an officer is heard asking a person and a lady he noticed in Shady Valley Park after hours final Monday night. The park is closed to the general public at 11 p.m. and the officer was making an attempt to offer the 2 people citations for the ordinance violation resulting from their presence within the park at about 11:50 p.m., in keeping with police.

Within the video, the officer instructs each individuals to signal the tickets or face arrest. The person complies, however the lady is seen asking the officer for his identify and badge quantity and telling him she doesn’t need to signal the ticket.

“Effectively, like I defined to him, for those who do not signal it, then you are going to be bodily taken to jail,” the officer tells her earlier than the scenario escalates when the girl continues refusing to conform.

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The officer repeatedly tells the girl to place her fingers behind her again, which she additionally refuses.

“I’m going to signal the ticket now,” she says as he tries to place handcuffs on and tells her it is too late to signal the ticket. “Why am I being arrested?”

She’s quickly seen laying on the bottom crying whereas the officer has a Taser gun out and is on high of her whereas making an attempt to handcuff her. The Atlanta Journal-Structure recognized the officer as Invoice Brooks, who was employed by the division in 2016. The outlet didn’t identify the girl or man who violated the town ordinance since they weren’t charged with felonies.

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A 90-second video of the incident quickly unfold on social media, prompting outrage from some viewers who accused the officer of utilizing extreme power.

“Are we not aloud (sic) to ask questions on our rights with out ego taking up,” an Instagram person who recognized herself because the arrested lady’s sister posted, in keeping with the Atlanta Journal-Structure. “Why was a taser pulled out? Why was she frisked by a male officer? Aren’t police right here to guard and serve? What sort of coaching is that this? Aggressive officers like this need to be STOPPED!!”

Others responded that the video of the incident was “horrible.”

“Omfg. I’m so sorry. That is horrible. And why is his face coated?” American Idol winner Jordin Sparks commented on the video posted to Instagram.

The park is situated within the Buckhead neighborhood of Atlanta, a rich and residential part of the town that has labored to secede from Atlanta resulting from rampant crime.

Police stated they’d heightened patrols in metropolis parks following homicides this month at Wilson Mill Park and Rosa L. Burney Park.

The Atlanta Police Division stated in an announcement that it’s “conscious of video footage circulating on social media” and launched the complete bodycam footage after a evaluate of the incident made it “instantly clear there may be extra to this story than the quick social media video exhibits.”

“Nobody needs to see a combat between an officer and a citizen, however a extra in-depth evaluate of the incident, utilizing the physique worn digicam footage, exhibits the officer repeatedly ask the feminine to conform by putting her fingers behind her again and the footage exhibits she refuses every time,” the division stated within the assertion.

The lady was handled for ache in her wrist, leg, again and knee on the Grady Detention Middle, the Atlanta Journal-Structure reported. She was then booked on the Atlanta metropolis jail.

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“If an officer explains you can be taken to jail for one thing and also you select to push the officer to that restrict, you’ll find yourself in jail,” the division stated within the Thursday assertion. A police division spokesman stated the officer was not disciplined over the incident, the Atlanta Journal-Structure reported.

Crime has been plaguing Atlanta lately, with a report final month discovering the town has the next homicide price than Chicago, at 17 murders per 100,000 inhabitants to Chicago’s 13 per 100,000.

In Buckhead, residents have been making an attempt to secede from the town in response to the elevated crime and what they are saying is lack of motion from metropolis management.

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“We’re actually feeling like it is a struggle zone, and I do not say that frivolously, particularly given what you skilled in a struggle zone,” Buckhead Metropolis Committee CEO Invoice White informed “Fox & Pals First” in June. “That is homicide and mayhem. … We’re coping with a mayor who voted to defund the police.”

“It is apparent that law enforcement officials don’t need to come work for a mayor or a metropolis that doesn’t again them, so Buckhead needs to take issues into its personal fingers,” he added.