New video of a chaotic Jan. 5 arrest has emerged, backing up the story of a woman who claimed she was a victim of police brutality during the incident outside a Superior, Wisconsin bar.
The incident, captured on video by a dash camera, shows police grabbing Natasha Lancour after engaging in a verbal altercation. Police were called to the scene for a disturbance taking place in the parking lot after the Green Bay Packers lost to the San Francisco 49ers.
What happens next is shocking. The officer slams Lancour into the police vehicle and starts viciously punching her in the head. They fall out of view — the rest of the attack cannot be seen on camera.
Now, Superior police are asking bystanders to come forward with cell phone video to determine if Lancour was resisting arrest or if the officer acted with excessive force.
Lancour’s lawyer, Richard Gondik, reviewed the video of the fight that preceded the altercation with Lancour. He says the two men involved in the fight were already handcuffed, being taken to the squad cars.
Another officer rolled in and that is when you see the violence begin.
“The video shows that the officer gets up very close to Lancour and then drags her to the hood of his squad car where he slams her down. He then punches her in the face with a closed fist,” Gondik said.
Lancour’s Lawyer Richard Gondik says he believes the video shows a dramatic excessive use of force.
“She is five–foot–nothing,”said Gondik. “She has never been arrested before, she has young children.”
Asked if she had been drinking that night and Gondik said she had not.
However, Police Officer George Gothner gave this account of the incident:
“Suddenly Lancour reached up with her left hand and struck and scratched me across the right side of my face… My reaction was that I gave her a closed fist punch to the left side of her face…”
But Lancour’s wounds may tell a different story:
“She has marks on her face, swelling of the cheeks, as well as a cut between her lip and her chin,” described Gondik. “As you can see the officer punches her with an uppercut right, knocking her down and off camera.”
The incident is being investigated. Watch the brutal video above.
SOURCE: NorthlandNewsCenter
