WELCOME BACK.
HE WAS A KEY WITNESS IN ONE MOST
NO US TO ARE EXCESSIVE FORCE
CASES AGAINST POLICE IN RECENT
SOUTH FLORIDA HISTORY DAYS OF A
TESTIFYING AGAINST A POLICE
OFFICER JESSICA MOAN WAS ARREST
HERSELF AND HERSELF BADLY BEATEN
BY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS.
NOW SHE TELLS HER STORY FOR VERY
FIRST TIME TO BOB NORMAN IN A
REPORT YOU WILL SEE ONLY ON
LOCAL 10.
>> A HOMELESS MAN PUSHED DOWN
SLAPPED BY A FORT LAUDERDALE
POLICE OFFICER APPEAR VIDEO SEEN
AROUND THE WORLD LED TO HIGHLY
PUBLICIZED TRIAL
>> SHOWED AGGRESSION.
FOR OFFICERS VICTOR RAMIREZ.
ALL I DID WAS TRY TO HELP
SOMEBODY.
24-YEAR-OLD JESSICA MOONEY WAS
THERE HER BOYFRIEND SHOT THE
VIDEO SHE TESTIFIED AT THAT
TRIAL.
I TESTIFIED BECAUSE IT WAS THE
RIGHT THING TO DO.
BECAUSE THE COP WAS WRONG.
NOT GUILTY.
BUT JUST EIGHT DAYS AFTER THE
OFFICER'S ACQUITTAL IN MARCH SHE
SAYS IT HAPPENED THESE PHOTOS
WERE TAKEN BETWEEN AN INCIDENT
BETWEEN MOO KNEW ASK AND BROWARD
DEPUTIES.
IT HAPPENED AFTER FORT
LAUDERDALE POLICE ARRESTED HER
FOR ALLEGEDLY FAILING TO PAY A
RESTAURANT BILL.
WHILE SHE WALKED HOME WITH HER
5-MONTH-OLD BABY.
>> MOONEY'S ATTORNEY SCOTT
EQUILIBRIUMER.
ALLEGATIONS WAS SHE HANDED HER
CHILD TO STRANGER.
AND EVENTUALLY SHE WAS ARRESTED.
FOR NEGLECT AND PETTY THEFT.
THEFT CHARGE WAS DROPPED WHEN IT
WAS DETERMINED SHE HAD IN FACT
PAID THE BILL.
A MISDEMEANOR NEGLECT CHARGE
REMAINS PENDING MOONEY ADMITS
SHE HAD BEEN DRINK THING AND
POLICE REPORTS SHE AS WAS
UNRULY.
DURING FINGERPRINTIN IN JAIL
SHE WAS JELLYING PRO FAN TEE SHE
CLAIMED A DEPUTY WAS VERBALLY
ABUSIVE TO HER OOP ASKED HER FOR
HER BADGE NUMBER AND HER NAME.
HER NAME W COVERING IT SHE
SAID SHE MOVED DEPUTY'S HAIR.
ONE FINGER.
SHE SMASHED MY FACE ON
FINGERPRINTING IT THREE OR FOUR
DEPUTIES JUMPED IN HER HER
MEMORY IS HAZY.
I DON'T KNOW WHETHER I LOST
CONSCIOUSNESS OR MY BODY JUST
WENT INTO SHOCK.
BELIEVE I HAD A FOOTPRINT ON
MY RIBCAGE.
CUTS EVERYWHERE.
INSIDE MY MOUTH FROM JUS BEING
BRUTALIZED.
>> I JUST NEVER WANT TO SEE
ANYTHI LIKE THIS HAPPENAGAIN.
MARINO TOLD PROSECUTOR MOONEY
VIOLENTLY PULLED MARINO'S HAIR
FORCING THEM TO FREE THE DEPUTY
FROM THEIR GRIP.
THERE ARE SURVEILLANCE VIDEO AN
OFFICIALS ARE REFUSING TO
RELEASE IT SIGHTING A RECENT
LEGAL OPINION FROM OFFICE OF
FLORIDA ATTORNEY GENERAL PAM
BONDI WHO SAYS THE RELEASE OF
SUCH VIDEO COMPROMISES
GOVERNMENT SECURITY.
>> YOU SEE HER HAND GO UP TO THE
FRONT AND GO LIKE THIS.
ATTORNEY GENERAL WAS ABLE SO
VIEW VIDEO AND SAYS IT
CONTRADICTS THE DEPUTY'S STORY.
IT'S NOT AT FIST AND NOT A
GRABBING MOTION A DEPUTIES SAY.
MOONEY SAYSOMY AFTER SHE WAS
ASSAULTED THEE GRABBED DEPUTY'S
HAIR IN SELF-DEFENSE.
SURVEILLANCE VIDEO DOESN'T
DOESN'T SHOW WHAT HAPPENED ONCE
SHE WENT TO THE GROUND.
>> EVERYBODY ON TOP OF HER.
SHE'S UNDERNEATH THESE PEOPLE.
ARMS MOVE.
ONES DEPUTY MARINO WAS EX
TRI-INDICATED SHE WENT BACK
TOWARDS MOONEY.
IT APPEARS SHE WAS GETTING READY
TO KICK THE DEFENDANT AS SHE
LIVED LIFT HER LEGS SHE FALLS
DEPUTY FALLS ON HR REAR END TATE
ATTORNEY'S OFFICE CITING A LACK
OF EVIDENCE.
BUT MOONEY HAS OBTAINED A CIVIL
ATTORNEY.
THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO ARE VIOLENT
IN THIS CASE WERE VSO DEPUTIES.
IN FORT LAUDERDALE, BOB NORMAN,
LOCAL 10 NEWS.
>>> WHILE MOONEY SUSPECTS
INCIDENT MAY HAVE RETRIBUTION.
BOB TELLS YOU SAY FOUND NO
EVIDENCE THAT SHOWS THAT TO BE