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Salt Lake City, UT — A body camera video was submitted to the Free Thought Project this week showing a horrifying case of police brutality.
In the video, Michelle Siguenza is brutally attacked by an unnamed officer as her 9-year-old daughter screams in terror.
The Free Thought Project spoke to Siguenza’s oldest daughter, Jasmine Anderson, 22, who tells us the police were arresting her mother for public intoxication — at her own house.
The incident happened on October 24, 2014, however, police refused to release the body camera footage until this week, according to Anderson.
“I received a phone call from the neighbor at my mother’s the night this happened that my mom had been drinking and could be heard yelling on the phone from their apartment,” Anderson explains. “I called 911 because I didn’t live near her at the time and was worried about my younger sister.”
“The police did not show up until hours later when my mother had calmed down and was asleep with my little sister in the house,” explains Anderson.
As the video begins, the entirely compliant, non-violent Siguenza is talking to police in her underwear. All of the sudden they place her under arrest and Siguenza does not protest.
After police placed cuffs on Siguenza, she peacefully stands by waiting for them to tell her what to do. As the officer wearing the body camera is grabbing the little girl’s toys from the hood of the car, his focus then quickly shifts to Siguenza who allegedly spit on him.
The next sound we hear is the officer’s fist smashing into the handcuffed woman’s face. As Siguenza falls to the ground the officer smashes her face to the ground while apparently delivering knee strikes.
“That’s not what I asked for,” Anderson said, referring to when she called the police. “I asked them to make sure she was safe.”
“I have had several ongoing issues with the SLCPD and now that I have seen this video and realize what the officer did to my mother - the connection between my previous incidences and now this one it is obvious that they didn’t just find out about this incident (Tuesday).
If that is the case, then there is a massive cover-up that took place to get that video unseen for two years,” Anderson told the Free Thought Project.
originally posted by: iTruthSeeker
originally posted by: amazing
This is why nobody likes Cops. They think they're gods and the good cops never call out the bad cops. Why is that?
I wouldn't dream of spitting on a cop, and if I did, would fully expect to be hit.
iTruthSeeker
originally posted by: amazing
originally posted by: iTruthSeeker
originally posted by: amazing
This is why nobody likes Cops. They think they're gods and the good cops never call out the bad cops. Why is that?
I wouldn't dream of spitting on a cop, and if I did, would fully expect to be hit.
iTruthSeeker
I wouldn't either but then again, I would never dream of hitting and hurting a handcuffed woman in front of her daughter either.
originally posted by: Deny Arrogance
She is clearly wearing a gown.
She clearly spit on the officer which is assault.
I can not see that the officer hit her as he forced her into a position where she could not repeat her spitting assault but if he did that was unreasonable.
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“You little #! You # spit on me, you #!” the officer yells at Siguenza as her 9-year-old daughter watches in absolute horror as a public servant beats her mommy.
A few moments pass as the officer apparently continues to dig his knees into the back of the handcuffed Siguenza as she begins to lose her breath.
“You go spitting on somebody, you deserve to have your # kicked. It’s what you deserved,” the cop is heard saying.
The woman responds a few seconds later by saying through sobs, “Please don’t. I can’t breathe.”
“Shut your hole,” the officer responds.
originally posted by: Deny Arrogance
She is clearly wearing a gown.
She clearly spit on the officer which is assault.
I can not see that the officer hit her as he forced her into a position where she could not repeat her spitting assault but if he did that was unreasonable.
originally posted by: iTruthSeeker
I wouldn't dream of spitting on a cop, and if I did, would fully expect to be hit.