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HANFORD, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A nonmigratory is speaking retired against a Hanford Police serviceman who she said utilized excessive unit connected her against her will. This comes aft authorities announced the officer's apprehension connected Wednesday and said helium was facing charges of involuntary manslaughter successful the decease of 55-year-old Richard Saunders.
Kaitlyn Chesser, who provided america with bodycam video of the incidental backmost successful 2020, obtained by her attorney, says she was grabbed and thrown by the aforesaid officer.
“You spot him shove maine into a door, propulsion maine into my car, telling maine halt warring erstwhile I’m evidently not warring astatine all," Chesser said portion she was narrating the video of her arrest.
One appearing to amusement Scandura spot his hands astir her neck, and yet arms, pinning her to the crushed successful beforehand of her hubby and kids.
She showed images from that time and the days following. An representation showed terrible bruising.
Bruising that his since gone away, but still, she says she carries the intelligence scars with her each day.
“Even present I can’t ticker that without shaking, and it’s been 5 years," she told us, her dependable trembling. “That’s affected maine beauteous hard due to the fact that nary 1 deserves to beryllium treated similar that," she cried.
Chesser says aft the incident, she filed a ailment with the constabulary section against Scandura and his spouse that day, Officer Domingo Bursiaga, who Chesser says utilized excessive unit arsenic well.
“You tin spot Bursiaga’s genu connected my neck," she told us, continuing to narrate.
However, Chesser says the officers were exonerated, and that she was fixed a missive from Hanford Police explaining their findings, 1 she provided to us.
Roughly 5 years later—after seeing the aforesaid officer’s apprehension connected our newscasts Wednesday, being indicted successful the decease of 55-year-old Richard Saunders—
She knew she had to bring this backmost into the nationalist eye.
“The information that this idiosyncratic was killed implicit a motorcycle airy is perfectly ridiculous," she cried, referring to Saunders' death, and the accusations helium was thrown to the crushed by Scandura handcuffed, earlier fatally hitting his head. "That is honestly the main crushed I stepped forward, due to the fact that they can’t support doing this," she said.
YourCentralValley.com sent the video to Hanford Police, but they are declining to remark connected either lawsuit astatine this time.
Legal expert Mark King says the video could adjacent perchance beryllium portion of the tribunal proceedings moving forward.
“The justice would yet determine whether oregon not that grounds would travel into trial. If it did travel out, evidently it would beryllium precise damaging," King said.
Scandura volition beryllium arraigned astatine Kings County Superior Court connected Sept. 24.
