After having multiple bones in her face broken after being arrested for a DUI a woman is suing the police department of Skokie, Ill., and the police officer who had allegedly pushed her into a bench, according to the Chicago Tribune.
Cassandra Feuerstein, 47, was found asleep at the wheel of her car on the side of the road and officers brought her to the station. The incident in question was caught on a surveillance camera in the jail. Everything appeared to be calm as Feuerstein left her cell, NBC Reports.
Then, seconds later, Feuerstein is shoved from behind into the isolation cell where she loses her balance and smashes face fist into a cement bench. Two paramedics came in and attended to her as she blleds excessively, according to NBC.
"This can go from 0-60 so quickly, like this man did with someone who's clearly no threat to him is dangerous - could be dangerous with that type of power that he has," Torri Hamilton, Feuerstein's attorney, told reporters. "She doesn't even know, we don't even know what she's going to need in the future."
Feuerstein alleges that the officer filed a false report that she had resisted police as justification for the shove, according to CBS News.
"(Feuerstein) knowingly resisted... in that she pulled away from (the officer) and placed both her hands on the sides of the cell door all in an attempt to not be placed into the holding cell," a Cook County court document filed by the Skokie police said.
A statement from the village said that they were deeply concerned with the injuries that Feuerstein had suffered from the fall and that one of the officers was placed on station duty so that they did not have any contact with the public, the Tribune reports.
"It this was a tavern fight, which of course it wasn't, it'd be like she got sucker-punched," Hamilton said.
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