Sacramento Police Continue to Face Backlash after Report of Officer Throwing Pregnant Woman to Ground
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 ...