Footage was recently released from the South Euclid Police Department of a traffic stop in the Ohio town in where an officer held a Black woman at gunpoint as her child was in the car. The release of the body camera and dash camera footage comes soon after a witness posted video of the Oct 12 interaction on social media. The department has attempted to explain why the officer pulled his gun alleging the windows of the car were heavily tinted.
The dashcam shows the officer pulling over a red SUV in Euclid, Ohio, which seem to pull over once the officer lights went on before taking off again and driving away from the patrol car. The officer then told the driver to roll down the windows, turn the car off, put her keys on the roof and make her hands visible. The officer called for backup after the woman didn’t comply.
The bodycam footage showed the officer pulling out his gun and aiming it at the woman for about 80 seconds after she pulled over the car for the second time.
The woman eventually got out the car and started to move toward officers. “You have your gun pointed at me,” she said at one point. “Just come here, come here,” one officer who arrived as backup said. “I don’t feel comfortable,” the woman said. The woman said she didn’t have a gun and the officer is heard saying “We don’t know that.”
The officers asked how many people were in the car, the woman said she was with her daughter.
“I’m confused,” she said at one point. “Am I being arrested? ‘Cause I’m not even sure what’s going on here.”
“There could be 20 people in that car for all I know,” referencing to the vehicle’s tinted windows.
“When the officer attempted to stop the vehicle, it initially failed to stop,” the Facebook post says. “When the vehicle finally stopped on Trebisky Road, the officer noted that the windows on the car were tinted so dark that he could not see inside the vehicle,” the department said.
The woman said she did not know why she had been stopped. “I didn’t even know you were pulling me over, I’m thinking I’m in your way or something,” she said. Once she showed ID, the officer told her she was initially stopped for speeding, driving 55 mph in a 35 mph zone.
The woman was eventually issued a citation and allowed to leave.
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