Жительница Сагинава не может спать после избиения со стороны полиции

Saginaw woman says she can’t sleep after she says police left her injured SAGINAW, Mich. - A Saginaw woman said she has been unable to sleep since an encounter with police over the weekend that she says left her injured and traumatized. “I can't even sleep every time I close my eyes. I keep seeing everything that happens to me,” Stephanie Anderson said. Anderson said she was celebrating a reunion and attending an afterparty in downtown Saginaw when she says officers used excessive force against her. She said she was in her car leaving the afterparty when she was sideswiped. Anderson said she got out and saw an officer standing there, told the officer what happened, and the situation escalated. “He yelled and told me to go back. I went back towards my car because it was in the turning lane where it was hit at. And he walked up and back at me as I was walking off. I wasn't saying nothing to him, I wasn't doing nothing. I just was like, forget it, let me go and go. And then he grabbed me and that's where everything started,” Anderson said. Anderson said she was tased and punched multiple times by officers. Her attorney, Ven Johnson, said doctors are concerned about an orbital fracture. “These are very common injuries on high traumatic punching and being struck in the eye. So she's got vision loss,” Johnson said. Johnson said an attorney friend contacted him after videos showing the use-of-force incident were posted online. “We're here to make sure that they're fully, fully accountable for what they did to her and her family, her little girls. She's got to try to explain this stuff to you now,” Johnson said. Anderson also described the impact on her daughter, saying, “She won't look at me. She won't stare at me.” The Saginaw Police Department said in a news release that it takes incidents like this “very seriously,” but said it cannot comment because the investigation is ongoing. Johnson said he is seeking accountability on behalf of Anderson and her family, including discipline for those involved. “We're asking for the city of Saginaw to discipline up to and including termination of everyone of all, not just the folks that laid hands on her, but those that stood around and did nothing to prevent it,” Johnson said. Anderson said she has received support since the incident and said she appreciates it. “I love them from standing by me. It didn't make me feel alone out here. And I just want them to, you know, we can protest and do things, but do it the right way. Don't go out there trying to start stuff with the police. Don't go arguing. Don't go riding. Don't go doing none of that. We just put it into, you know, the right people hands and they're going to see that everything be right,” Anderson said. Johnson said he has asked the Saginaw Police Department to release body camera video and other evidence. He said he plans to review the material and then decide how to proceed from a civil aspect.