[kellyhound]

San Diego, A local woman is charged with battery and resisting arrest after a traffic stop by a sheriff’s deputy.

The entire incident was caught on the deputy’s body camera and could affect the outcome of the case.

It began during a traffic stop as Deputy Agustin Rosas Verion was attempting to issue a speeding ticket to driver Bana Mouwakeh.

Mouwakeh touched the deputy. She would end up being charged for resisting arrest and battery. “The reaction was way too excessive,” Mouwakeh said.

She says she repeatedly asked the deputy for his name and he just ignored her, and when she reached over and touched him, she was simply trying to see his badge.

In the video, you can hear her say she wants his name as the deputy opens the door.

“I pleaded with him, ‘I’m going to have hip surgery and I just had knee surgery, please can we just negotiate this,’” she said.

She says what happened next would cause emotional and physical pain.

“My right wrist was handcuffed so tight it cut off the circulation to my fingers, and I still get numbness in that right hand,” she said.

As for Deputy Verion, in his report he says Mouwakeh repeatedly yelled at him when he asked for her license and registration.

He called the touch willful and unlawful force against him. He also said he arrested her so she couldn’t flee the scene and had he not, she could have “initiated a pursuit situation, endangering her and the general public.”

Mouwakeh’s lawyer Mary Francis Prevost says she plans to fight the charges.

“In order for someone to be convicted of battery, they have to have intended an offensive touch, and that didn’t happen in this case,” Prevost said.

There are two sides to this story. The question is, which version will a jury believe?

We reached out to the sheriff’s department but they said they couldn’t comment on the case.

never touch a cop but arresting over this and calling it: initiated a pursuit situation, endangering her and the general public and resisting arrest and battery ? ffs.

[Cads]

It's common sense not to touch a cop but you can tell the officer is just being spiteful and unreasonable by arresting her for that.

Just the kind of officer who waits for the tiniest possible infringement (or percieved infringement) and arrests a completely law abiding woman for something cross his wife probably said to him this morning

But anyways nothing will come of this, the police are untouchable

[30564U]

Ok, I watched the video four times. I have questions, but I'm not sure they're relevant to the incident, but here they are, 1.) What was the initial reason for the traffic stop and contact? 2.) Why was the police crusier parked in front of the suspect's vehicle? 3.) Why were there three Deputies on scene from the beginning? 4.) Where are the other video recordings...three Deputies three recordings? 5.) Where all the Deputies designated traffic Deputies or just the arresting Deputy? 6.) Was this some type of static traffic enforcement operation?

I'm not sure we'll ever know the answers to my questions above, or if my questions are actually relevant to the incident. In any case, the arrest was absolutely legal by California law and by standard arrest/use of force policy. There's nothing illegal in the Deputies' actions. Now that being said, there are some minor points.

The suspect was mouthy and aggressive (notice how she started using her hands in front of her almost immediately when the Deputy walked up to the car) and almost immediately grabbed at the Deputy...which is a really big common sense no no under any circumstances. The Deputy's reaction was normal given the circumstances. The suspect continually resisted the Deputy's instructions to get her out of the car and she repeatedly refused to comply. She continued to verbally refused to comply with the Deputy and was forcefully removed from her car and plasced in handcuffs. She continued to verbally and physically refuse instructions even repeatedly telling Deputies that she was not going to jail. It was a petty arrest, but the suspect asked for it and committed the crime of Assault on a Peace Officer not the more serious Battery on a Peace Officer. I'm sure this will be plead down to a disturbing the peace or minor resisting a lawful arrest. The suspect acted like an asshole and the Deputy acted within his authority. I personally think he reacted a little too fast and should have not gotten so close to that open window. The whole contacting from the suspect's front is a little stupid...the Deputy's a lefty and his firearm was right in that window. He used poor tactics and had a quick fuse, but it doesn't matter, the suspect was stupid for putting herself in that position in the first place, it's just a traffic ticket.

[30564U]

Ok...on my fifth viewing I think I saw what happened. The suspect actually ripped off the left side of the Deputy's yellow traffic vest to see his badge and name tag. She actually admits to this on the video right before and after she's ejected from her car...it's hard to hear and see, but it's on there. She admits she ripped the vest to get to the Deputy's name tag. What a dumbass. By the way, what kind of name is Bana Mouwakeh? And what in God's name is she wearing...that alone should be case for arrest. Yuk. In this case, she should be charged with Assault on a Peace Officer...she blew it.

[Shakey]

[Desensitisation]

Stupid woman is stupid. She got what she deserved. I don't see any brutality here.

[Arevalosocom]

Officer safety issue. Officer went home safely, that trumps your rights.

[Faline]

[Pyramid_Head]

She was in the wrong; end of story.