A patrol car dashboard camera video showing a woman being arrested in Sioux City has sparked allegations for police mistreatment.

Dacota Daniels, 34, was detained on August 8 at Sioux City by two officers, one in uniform and one in plain clothes after they stopped the rental car she was in as a passenger.

The plainclothes drug task force officer said in the report that he spotted Daniels’ fiancé, Christopher Robinson, driving the car despite being “known to have a barred license.”

Daniels, a passenger in Robinson’s car, was taken out of the car and questioned. The confrontation escalated when the woman took out her cell phone and refused to put it down, with the footage showing the police officers using force to get her in handcuffs.

She later claimed that the officers mistreated her giving her a black eye and bruises, and is now considering suing the police department.

In response to the allegations, Sioux City Police Chief Doug Young said that the department’s investigation concluded that the officer’s actions during the arrest were justified: “The altercation was escalating; the officer got slapped”, he said. “She tried to resist throughout the whole incident.”

You can watch the video right after the jump and see for yourself which of the two sides’ argument is valid [the description on the second half of the clip is from the Sioux City police department].

Story References: Sioux City Journal

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