This article originally appeared on VICE Canada.
Newly released body cam footage shows a police officer warning a woman she was about to “get dropped” shortly before a cop punched her on a New Jersey beach.
The release of the Wildwood, New Jersey police footage comes after a witness’s video posted on Twitter showed the violent arrest of a 20-year-old woman on Memorial Day weekend, garnering millions of views.
In the new footage, you can hear one of the cops say, “Alright, you’re about to get dropped,” before physically going after the woman who was arrested.
The woman, Emily Weinman of Philadelphia, had repeatedly refused to give her last name to police prior to her arrest, according to the body cam footage. “OK, that’s it, I’m done with you,” one of the cops responds after giving her a final chance to provide her name.
The incident reportedly began when police saw Weinman with unopened alcohol. In the video, you can see a bottle and a can on their sides on a towel Weinman and another person are sitting on.
Weinman is facing multiple charges related to the incident, including aggravated assault of a police officer, resisting arrest, and being underage in possession of alcohol.
After being prompted by police, Weinman says she is calling her aunt, to whom she says the alcohol belongs. She said her aunt was on the way and told police to wait for her arrival.
Once she refuses to give her name to police when they give her a final chance, she begins walking toward the water and screaming at one of the cops, “Don’t fucking talk to me!”
The body cam footage, released Wednesday, can be viewed below. It begins with Weinman taking a breathalyzer test. “I know that didn’t come up positive, I didn’t take a drink of anything so,” she says when one of the cops asks her age.
In the body cam footage, Weinman says she is at the beach that day with her 18-month-old child. It’s not clear where the child is in the video.
During the arrest, Weinman thrashes around and struggles with police, screaming at them. She tells one of the cops he’s choking her in the body cam footage, though he denies it. In the original witness video on Twitter, one of the officers appears to put Weinman in a chokehold and punches her multiple times. Weinman appears to spit at one of the cops while she is on the sand being cuffed in the body cam footage.
The police involved in Weinman’s arrest are Thomas Cannon, John Hillman, and Robert Jordan, according to NJ.com.
Officers involved in the incident have been assigned to desk duty pending an investigation, CBS News reports.
City of Wildwood Police Chief Robert Regalbuto claimed that Weinman hit one of the officers in the torso, causing his bodycam to turn off as the incident escalated.
"From what I see on the video and only on the video, from not even talking to the officers, I think they did a decent job," Regalbuto said, NJ.com reports. "I think we could have done a better job at trying to explain to her, but it didn't appear Ms. Weinman wanted to hear what we had to say. She tried to tell us it was OK for her to possess alcohol, and that doesn't make any sense."
The county prosecutor office where the incident took place is still investigating.
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