A Rockingham County woman whose aggressive arrest by the Department of Homeland Security was captured on video in October has reached an agreement with the government that will dismiss her resisting arrest charge after three months. WMRA’s Randi B. Hagi reports.
The woman’s arrest just north of Harrisonburg in late October was videotaped by her teen daughter, who was a passenger in the car when they were pulled over by Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent Scott Stein. After a brief conversation, Stein grabbed the woman and pinned her on the ground in the northbound travel lane of Route 11. The video quickly circulated on social media. A few days later, the government charged her with a federal misdemeanor of forcibly resisting the arrest.
WMRA has agreed to withhold the woman’s name to protect her privacy. She is originally from Honduras…