*Georgia’s Gwinnett County police said they’re investigating a use-of-force complaint after a video showing an officer tasing a woman went viral.
Investigators released a statement saying there was more leading up to the incident than the video shows. The woman, who was ultimately arrested, bonded out of jail Thursday night, but her family said their fight to hold the cop accountable is just beginning.
The shock from the Taser knocked Kyndesia Smith, 22, into the bushes of her mother’s Loganville home. Video shows the officer continuing to give commands, which he said were being ignored. Police said Smith continued to resist arrest. Two minutes later, the video shows the officer shoving Smith into the back of the car when Smith appears to kick him.
Witnessing it all was Smith’s mother, Aytra Thomas. “He should get fired because he needs more training,” Thomas told Channel 2 Thursday night. “Her side where the Taser went at is messed up. Her neck, her back, my shoulder. It ain’t have to go that way. It could have gone a whole other way.”
Watch the incident unfold below:
Police said an officer responded because the neighbor said someone had thrown a water bottle at her car and threatened her 9-year-old child. Cpl. Collin Flynn with the Gwinnett County Police Department said the officer “had seen surveillance from the incident, and that’s how he recognized this woman.”
When the officer went to the house on Summit Creek Way, the department reported Smith wouldn’t let the officer ask questions. “He then warned her that she would be tased. She continued to resist, and she was tased,” Flynn said.
Meanwhile, Thomas said the officer was aggressive from the moment he approached them. “When he came up, he said, ‘Y’all need to shut the f— up,’” Thomas said.
When Johnson asked Thomas if her daughter threw anything or threatened anyone, she said: “No. That’s not true.” Thomas said there was no need for this cop to use his Taser. “I didn’t threaten him. She didn’t threaten him. She only told him, ‘I didn’t want to talk.’ That was true. I didn’t want to talk. I didn’t have to talk,” Thomas said.
Smith now faces charges for felony obstruction and simple battery of a law enforcement officer. The officer at the center of the arrest is now on administrative leave and under investigated.
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