Miami: A Miami-Dade police officer has been relieved of duty after an incident caught on bodycam showed him hitting a woman who was yelling at him at Miami International Airport.
In the video, which was posted on Twitter by South Florida filmmaker Billy Corben, shows a Miami-Dade police officer, who was wearing a face mask, speaking to a Black woman inside an airport terminal on Wednesday.
The woman, who was not wearing a face mask, becomes irate, saying, "You acting like you white when you Black...what you want to do?"
She approaches the officer and puts her face right next to his, the video shows. The officer then struck her in the face.
"She headbutted me," the officer says as other officers rush in to handcuff her.
Miami-Dade Police Director Alfredo Ramirez has asked Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle to investigate the use of force.
The Miami Herald reported that the woman was loudly complaining about a missed or delayed flight and a ticket agent called police.
The officer arrived and began talking to the woman but the confrontation escalated when she began shouting at him, the newspaper report said.
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(With inputs from AP)
