A woman who was arrested on a New Jersey beach was captured on a police body camera and subsequently went viral was indicted, according to reports.
Emily Weinman, 20, was indicted on aggravated assault of a police officer, throwing bodily fluids, obstruction, and resisting arrest, Fox News
reported.
Weinman, who is from Philadelphia, was on a beach in Wildwood with her boyfriend and 18-month-old daughter when police approached her, thinking that she was drinking underage.
Officers administered a breathalyzer test, but she later refused to give them her name.
“I ask them, ‘Do you guys have anything better to do?’ There’s so much stuff going on and you’re trying to stop people for underage drinking and you see I didn’t drink,” Weinman said, CBS News
reported. “He was like, ‘That’s it. I was going to let you go, but now I’m going to write you up.’”
She said that she was also on probation for a 2016 arrest, according to
MailOnline.
Weinman then is seen running away, yelling expletives at the officers and telling them not to handcuff her. “You’re about to get dropped,” one officer responded.
Police Chief Robert Regalbuto said that as the officer tried to approach her, she “forcibly struck” him in the body. The officer then punched the woman twice, and according to the Fox report, she spit in the direction of one of the officers.
Her attorney, Stephen Dicht, said that she was spitting sand out of her mouth after being pinned down, NJ.com
reported.
The Wildwood Police Department said that officers Thomas Cannon, John Hillman, and Robert Jordan were involved in the incident. Police cleared them of wrongdoing after officials reviewed the video footage.
According to the
Philly Voice, Weinman was offered a plea deal, but she rejected it. “One situation doesn’t define someone,” Weinman said in June. “I’m not a bad person. I’m not this person that they’re out here trying to make me seem like.”
Weinman said that she faced a torrent of criticism after the video went viral.
“I’ve been real anxious over it. Kind of upset. Just the neg things that people say about me. They see one video, one situation, and they start saying all this negative stuff about a person. But one situation doesn’t define someone. I’m not a bad person. I’m not this person that they’re out here trying to make me seem like,” she said, according to
MailOnline.
