story you will only see here on local
tennis el Florida woman is suing after
she was forcibly taken into custody not
once but twice by office and she says
it's all because of her struggle to fix
a neighborhood parking problem their
local 10 investigator in Vevey terry has
the exclusive video showing what
triggered those arrests this exclusive
cell phone video shows a miami-dade
school's police officer taking a woman
to the ground and cuffing her all
because she was recording with her phone
in public I was just trying to tell him
I was just getting his tag the cause of
this incident from 2015 a parking
dispute a years-long battle between
neighbors like susan corey and patrons
of a youth baseball league which used
the fields at glades middle school in
southwest miami-dade our original issue
was just get them off the sidewalks and
off our properties for years residents
protested baseball families parking
illegally on their sidewalks and lawns
blocking driveways and littering
properties with trash despite an
available parking lot on school property
and when you tell them when you say you
can't leave your car you oh I'll be
right back more than 60 neighbors signed
a letter to the school board about the
issue in 2013 but we're told initially
there was no problem so Cory began
documenting the problem herself with
photos and videos creating tension with
many baseball families like this
exchange she recorded just last month I
became the face of this whole situation
I became the target Cory says the 2015
incident was her first run-in with the
law it was another baseball parent who
called police complaining Cory was
taking photos I think this really stems
from people not understanding that she
has a constitutional right to film in
public he grabbed my left arm and swung
it behind me
I could hear a popping sound she says
the officer dislocated her elbow joined
in the arrest by an off-duty homestead
office
at no point do they tell her why and I
said to him what are you arresting me
for he says oh we're not arresting we're
baker acting you after two nights in two
different hospitals Cory says a doctor
determined there was no reason for her
to be there there's no due process when
your Baker Act you're sore at Bear Marcy
Cory a former federal law enforcement
agent herself filed a lawsuit against
the school district and officer Williams
I know she's on the street this is a
street
but tensions continued and in June of
last year it happened again come here
come here this time it's a miami-dade
police officer responding to a call
about Corey who she claims to be
familiar with but why are you here
taking pictures standing here taking
pictures ma'am Cory is standing just
feet from her home and a police officer
has no right or basis within the law to
arrest somebody for filming you don't
even have the right to tell someone to
stop and come over here because they're
filming the officer arrested Cory for
disorderly conduct and resisting both
charges dropped when the State
Attorney's Office declined to prosecute
now think in both of these situations
you can clearly see from the video
evidence there was a serious abuse of
power
Cory ultimately decided to sell her home
last month and moved from the area
she says the ordeal caused her
financially and emotionally law
enforcement is supposed to be there to
protect you and to serve this the
community they're in a position of trust
Amy Viteri local 10 News
just this week Cory's attorney notified
the county they plan to file a lawsuit
over last year's arrest she filed a
complaint against the Miami Dade officer
involved police say that internal
investigation remains open both the
county and the school district tell us
they do not comment on pending or
potential litigation