Ja’Lana Dunlap, 22, says she was yanked from her car and slammed against a police trunk while being handcuffed by Fayetteville police.
Cell phone footage allegedly showing a Black woman being illegally forced into handcuffs by Fayetteville, North Carolina police officers is under investigation.
Ja’Lana Dunlap, 22, told ABC News she was working as a property manager and had stopped to check on one of her buildings on Sept. 6 when Fayetteville police officers approached her car and began questioning her.
The officers, reportedly on the search for a suspected fugitive, asked Dunlap her reason for being on the property. She replied that she was there to take photos confirming the cleanup of illegally dumped furniture and trash from the site, per the outlet.
Dunlap told ABC News that she then declined an officer’s request for her identification, citing North Carolina’s lack of “Stop and Identify” laws that would require her to provide ID upon a police officer’s request.
Dunlap said she began recording the encounter after police continued their demands, at which point, she said, an officer grabbed her left arm, which can be seen in the video.
In the video, Dunlap is heard asking the officer to let go. The officer held his grip while asking Dunlap to exit the vehicle, telling her to “stop resisting.” She said she would stop resisting if her arm was released.
The footage recorded by Dunlap then became shaky as the officers pulled her out of the car and took her phone, she alleges. She said officers handcuffed her after pushing her violently against the trunk.
Dunlap, who has sickle cell anemia, told ABC News the incident caused her to begin hyperventilating and vomiting from the stress.
“They were actually trying to yank me back up with the handcuffs behind my back to the point where I had to ask, ‘Y’all please stop so I can finish throwing up,’” she told the outlet.
Source: Black woman alleges police assaulted, unlawfully detained her in North Carolina
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