Baltimore police beat up a woman and smashed her camera for filming them beating up a man, telling her: \u201cYou want to film something bitch? Film this!\u201d the woman claims in court.<\/p>\n
Makia Smith sued the Baltimore Police Department, Police Commissioner Anthony Batts and police Officers Nathan Church, William Pilkerton, Jr., Nathan Ulmer and Kenneth Campbell in Federal Court.<\/p>\n
Smith claims she was stuck in stand-still rush hour traffic in northern Baltimore when she saw the defendant officers beating up and arresting a young man.<\/p>\n
She says pulled out her camera, stood on her car\u2019s door sill and filmed the beating.<\/p>\n
\u201cOfficer Church saw plaintiff filming the beating and ran at her,\u201d the complaint states. \u201cHe scared her and she sat back in her vehicle. As he ran at her, he yelled, \u2018You want to film something bitch? Film this!\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cOfficer Church reached into plaintiff\u2019s car and grabbed her telephone-camera out of her hand, threw it to the ground and destroyed it by smashing it with his foot.<\/p>\n
\u201cOfficer Church pulled plaintiff out of her car by her hair and beat her. Officers Pilkerton, Ulmer, and Campbell then ran to plaintiff\u2019s car and joined Officer Church in beating plaintiff and arrested her using excessive force. At all times described herein, plaintiff\u2019s two year old daughter witnessed her mother\u2019s beating and arrest by the Officers, as did others.\u201d<\/p>\n