JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Body camera video shows the violent arrest of a woman outside her daughter’s school in Jacksonville, Florida.

It all stemmed from a parking dispute. Now, she’s speaking publicly for the first time.

“Everything that happened, that was just like uncalled for, and it’s not fair,” Erika McGriff said.

Police say 39-year-old McGriff left her car running in an intersection.

Body camera video shows an officer confronting her. When McGriff refuses to hand over her license, the situation turns physical.

Officer: “I need your license!”
McGriff: “I don’t know what you’re talking about!”
Officer: “You’re making this way more than it needs to be, walk…”
McGriff: “Please don’t grab me. Please don’t grab me; please don’t grab me. I’m not pulling away from you. You got me (expletive) up. You going to punch me”
Officer: “Get on the ground”
McGriff: “Ow! Ow!”
Officer: “Oh you want to fight me?”
McGriff: “Ow!”

“She violently resisted Officer Holton, and eventually punched him repeatedly and bit him with such force that she left a bite impression on his forearm,” Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters said.

Attorney Ben Crump, now representing McGriff, calls the arrest excessive, and is urging the state attorney to drop the charges, which include “battery” and “resisting with violence”: each punishable by up to five years in prison.

“Regardless of what you think, how she should comply, when you look at that excessive force, it is not right,” Crump said.

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“All I was trying to do was get my daughter out of the school, from out of school without getting wet, drenched in the rain,” McGriff said.

But the sheriff’s office says the officer followed department policy.

“He followed the rules. He followed the law,” Waters said.

McGriff’s lawyers claim her arrest reflects a pattern of excessive force over minor traffic violations in Jacksonville.

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