The 234 Apartment

Sacramento police on Thursday released body -camera images from a controversial encounter last month in which an officer grabbed the arm of a pregnant woman who moments later fell to the ground. The department released a statement saying officials decided to post the dramatic and, at times, profane video, which is broken into four clips, on YouTube because they’re dedicated to transparency. On July 9, a police license - plate reader detected a stolen vehicle, according to the statement, and officers soon found the car and detained a female driver. But police then began looking for a male suspect, who they say had an outstanding warrant and was last seen at an apartment complex in northern Sacramento . Officers eventually went to the complex and spotted a man who police say closely matched the suspect’s description seated outside the apartments. Police said the man ran inside and locked the door. In the first clip, the officer wearing the body camera charges toward the apartment sh...

SACRAMENTO -- When Sacramento police supervisors first reviewed the body cam video connected to their raid of Zityrua Abraham's apartment, the department told FOX40 nothing seen warranted an internal investigation. Abraham has now made a citizen's request for one, and the video has been made public. One of four clips released shows the moment Abraham says police went too far -- a moment she and her neighbors told FOX40 about exclusively the day after it happened -- the moment she says she was tossed down on her 7- month pregnant belly in a raid of the wrong house. Four days into the tenure of a new police chief, the body cam video FOX40 asked for a month ago is available. "My first reaction was..." said Abraham, looking down. "I was shocked a little bit and I was just irritated." Shocked and irritated because Abraham doesn't understand why there's no straight on view of her hitting the ground, since she took down the badge numbers of at least ...