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Woman Who Shot Cell Phone Video Speaks To WJZ

BALTIMORE (WJZ) -- Cell phone video captured intense moments between a woman recording an arrest and a Baltimore City police office her attorneys say use offensive language towards the woman; they also say she was Tasered two times. Now we hear for the first time the woman's account of that night and her demand for the officers to be fired.

Rochelle Ritchie has more.

In an exclusive interview, Kianga Mwamba says she still has emotional scars from that night and doesn't believe an investigation would even be underway if her daughter had not retrieved the video from her Dropbox after she says police deleted it from her cell phone.

Mwamba, 36, sat down and recalled the night she was Tasered and slammed to the ground by officers with the Baltimore City police department.

"This can't be happening," she said. "Police, you are supposed to be able to trust them and I didn't do nothing wrong."

In March, Mwamba says she was driving home when she saw a man in handcuffs on the ground. She pulled out her phone and started recording.

"He said `You can record but you have to park your car,'" she said. "Somebody slammed on top of my car and then they just rushed my car."

She says she was Tasered in her back as she was violently ripped from her vehicle.

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"I couldn't believe he was talking to me that way," she said. "I want him to be charged and I want him to understand what he did to me was wrong."

In a statement, police officials say "The video does not capture enough information to draw a definitive conclusion about what transpired before and during the arrest. What is clear is that the language used is unacceptable and will not be tolerated."

"It's happened too many times, not only to me," Mwamba said.

In a statement of probable cause, the officer claims Mwamba accelerated and hit an officer and he yelled for her to stop. The officer also writes "I asked Mrs. Mwamba to step out the vehicle but she refused and held tight to the steering wheel."

But attorneys say none of that is evident in the two minute long video.

"If this video was not able to be preserved, she could have been in prison right now," said her attorney Joshua Insley.

Mwamba was arrested and charged with felony assault on an officer. Those charges have since been dropped.

Baltimore police say the case is now under review by the state's attorney's office.

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