SEATTLE – Only months after Seattle police came under heavy criticism for a video of police stomping on a man, there is new controversy – this time, a video shows an officer punching a young woman in the face after she tried to avoid arrest.
The incident happened Monday afternoon in Seattle’s Rainier Valley and was videotaped by a man who heard an argument and pulled out his camera.
Seattle police say the punch came after the young woman became verbally and physically abusive after a jaywalking stop. Seattle police say it all started after an officer observed four women jaywalking across Martin Luther King Junior Way South. When the officer attempted to stop them, voices and tensions escalated. The officer was attempting to handcuff a 19-year-old woman when her 17-year-old friend tried to intervene.
In the video, you can see the 17-year-old push the officer. That’s when the officer pulls back his arm and punches the teenager in the face.
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