A woman reported a sanitation worker to 911 over the noise caused by his garbage truck while he was collecting trash outside her house and alleged that he assaulted her. Despite being the one to lodge a complaint, the woman was arrested by an officer for battery and trespassing instead.
Atlanta Black Star reported that the incident happened in Palm Beach County in Florida. A woman was at her home preparing for a work call when she kept hearing loud noise coming from a garbage truck. According to the woman in the body-camera footage, she repeatedly asked the sanitation worker to turn off his vehicle while the truck was stationary.
When the worker did not comply with her request, she eventually left her home and confronted the man downstairs. The woman claimed she “didn’t get in” the garbage truck, but “stepped up” to turn off the vehicle with a notch before she was pulled out by the worker by the arm.
She claims she was assaulted
The woman later alleged the worker had punched her in the face when she pushed him as he was pulling her down. Despite her claims, the woman showed no visible injuries and confirmed to the officer, who responded to a 911 report of battery, that she was not seriously harmed.
The worker, however, gave a different version of events. While he confirmed that he was pushed on the chest, he denied hitting the woman and claimed that she had entered the truck and hit herself as she was being removed from inside the vehicle. “She goes in the truck and shuts it off while I’m trying to load this truck up,” the worker said. “So I grabbed her and put her down, and she hit herself in the mouth… said I punched her in the mouth.”…