ORLANDO, Fla. — A woman said pictures taken of her after a traffic stop in Orlando last year prove an Orlando police deputy chief used excessive force on her.
Rebekah Davis was pepper-sprayed and arrested by Deputy Chief Robert Pigman in August 2012 on charges of resisting arrest.
In a lawsuit against Pigman and OPD, Davis claims she "cried out in pain, begging for Pigman to stop pepper-spraying her."
Photos show Davis with red, irritated marks all over her chest, neck and back, where she said the officer pepper-sprayed her during the traffic stop.
Davis said she remembers being sprayed at least three times. The marks on her body, she said, were there the next day after she spent the night in jail.
But in a "response to resistance" form documented by Pigman, he claims he only gave Davis one two-second burst of department-issued chemical agent to the face.
Pigman and OPD deny the allegations that excessive force was used, but Davis' iPad was recording audio, capturing the entire incident.
In the video, Davis can be heard screaming for about 14 seconds the first time she was sprayed.
After being sprayed a second time by Pigman, Davis can be heard screaming and crying for more than three minutes.
Davis' boyfriend was behind the wheel when he was stopped for reckless driving along State Road 408 near Conway Road last year.
Pigman got into a shouting match with Davis after she said his behavior was threatening, but he didn't know he was being recorded.
Pigman and OPD deny the allegation that Pigman told a paramedic to let Davis enjoy the pain, but he can be heard in the recording saying, "Let her enjoy it."
In the end, Davis was charged with resisting arrest without violence.
WFTV
