Ikeria Tate, a Black 15-year-old girl from Miami, is facing felony charges after she was body-slammed to the ground by a Miami-Dade Public Schools police officer last week.
The incident took place at Edison High School in Miami and was captured on video, which was posted to an Instagram story last week, so the full unedited video no longer appears to be online.
However, Local 10 obtained the video and used edited portions in its news report showing a man identified only as Miami-Dade Public Schools Sgt. Odige body slamming Tate to the ground during a melee at the school following a football game.
The video shows that after body slamming her to the ground, he approached her and grabbed her by her hair, which was when she flailed her right arm twice.
Miami-Dade Public Schools police interpreted the flailing of the arms as an attack on the officer, which was why she was charged with battery on a law enforcement officer, resisting arrest and disrupting a school function.