From [HERE] and [HERE] MILWAUKEE (AP) -- The Milwaukee Police Department has released a squad car video [HERE] that shows an officer punching a handcuffed Black woman restrained in the backseat of a police car. Police say the officer, Richard Schoen, was fired May 1 for violating the department's code of conduct. The incident happened in September.
Police determined that Schoen "punched a prisoner in the face, removed her from the squad by her hair and struck her to the body with his knee, while she was handcuffed in the squad." The victim, Jeanine Tracy, said the incident started last September when she was driving on North 51st Boulevard and she saw police lights in her rearview mirror. Police say Schoen also struck her with his knee while she was on the ground, but that's not on video.
"Never, never have I been more scared than this," Tracy said. "He was, like, 'Do you have any open cases,' I said, 'You can just run the check, you have my license. Then I asked the other officer could he stop talking to my daughter because she's a minor." Tracy said the officer ordered her out of the car.
"He asked me to sit on the curb. I said, 'I'm unable to do that because my leg is injured,' and he said, 'You can get in the back of the police car,' and I'm thinking he was accommodating me. Then I see, 'No, I'm getting cuffs slapped on my wrist,'" Tracy said.
Since being caught in a cement auger at work two years ago, Tracy said she has had a half-dozen surgeries on her leg. At the time of the traffic stop, she was still recovering.
Tracy said police held her in custody for three days. Officers arrested her on a resisting arrest charge but prosecutors eventually dropped the case.