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'I couldn't breathe': Aussie woman dragged from car in dramatic altercation with police at lockdown checkpoint (VIDEO)
13 Sep, 2020 07:46
A confrontation over a windscreen-mounted mobile phone saw a Victoria woman violently pulled from her vehicle by armed police, who allegedly wrestled her to the ground. The dramatic arrest was captured by the phone's camera.
Natalie Bonett, 29, began filming her ordeal shortly after engaging in an argument with police who stopped her at a checkpoint in Wallan, north of Melbourne, where a strict stage-four quarantine is in place.
An officer had told her that it was illegal to have a mobile phone mounted on a windscreen and that the device was obstructing her view. A brief and tense argument ensued as the officer demanded that Bonett step out of the car, and she refused. "I don't feel safe, you're armed," the woman said after the law enforcer called for backup.
The video then shows the officer lean over to the woman in an effort to drag her out of the vehicle. "Get off me!" she screams repeatedly, as a person in the passenger seat tries to pull her back in.
https://www.rt.com/news/500580-australia-woman-dragged-police-checkpoint/
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