Angela Garbarino, under arrest for alleged DWI, tries to walk out of the interrogation room. The Shreveport, Louisiana police officer puts her in cuffs.
Garbarino pulls away, apparently looking for the surveillance camera.
Garbarino: Is this on the record?
Officer: Yes Ma'am.
Garbarino: Good!
As he yanks her back, she hits the wall and falls.
When the officer tries to sit her in a chair, she screams and resists.
But it is what happens next that is causing national outrage. The screen goes black as the officer turns off the camera. When it goes on again, the woman is lying unconscious on the floor next to a pool of blood. Another officer checks on Garbarino, paramedics were called, and she was hospitalized.
And in a photo taken by her lawyer, Garbarino displays a bruised face, broken nose, two broken teeth, a gash on her forehead and a swollen lip.
Television legal expert Lisa Bloom reviewed the tape for INSIDE EDITION.
“Why does he turn the video camera off? What happened that would make any reasonable person highly suspicious? The police officer escalated the incident. No question that this person began to get hysterical in trying to leave the room…he could have used less physical means to restrain her…to deescalate the situation.”
The police officer, Wiley Willis, has been fired. His attorney says he did nothing wrong. " She tried to leave the room again and he tried to stop her…in that process she fell and injured herself.," he said.