In a violent encounter that took place in downtown Tempe, Arizona, within the Mill Avenue entertainment district, police officers allegedly tackled an unnamed Black woman onto a metal bicycle after she began watching them from a public sidewalk. Quinn Gamino, who originally posted the video on Instagram, provided context in his caption. He wrote, “Tempe PD threw her and punched her in the face. help me expose this nonsense,” he wrote.
In the widely shared footage, several white police officers can be seen at the site of the incident. They were tackling an individual and holding them to the ground when a black woman, who appeared to be with the detainee, tried to talk to the police officers.
One of them got really angry and pushed her so hard that she fell on the concrete sidewalk. He then pushed her face-down onto the bicycle and got on her back, leaving her skirt pulled up. The officer proceeded to pin her down with his full body weight, forcing her torso to bend awkwardly across the bike’s metal frame, pedals, and handlebars…