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carefully. what's your reaction? >> nowhere in the training i received in 27 years of law enforcement does it tell you to use closed-hand fist strikes on the head. he'll have a problem once baltimore county starts investigating this. >> the police officer will have a real problem because he was hitting the young man in the face? >> right, everything, wolf, as you know goes back to training and we are not trained to use closed hand fist strikes to the head or face even to gain compliance of suspects. >> sunny, and i want to play, show the video once again to the viewers because it is pretty disturbing when you think about it. when you saw what was going on, what was your reaction? >> my reaction is yet again, here is another show of excessive force. i mean, it's very clear and i think, you know, people have been complaining about police excessive force quite frankly, wolf, for such a long time and many didn't believe it but now with cell phones just being
another officer, ashley crispin, responded to antholt's call for backup. during her testimony she observed graham reaching behind the officer's head. officer crispin used closed fist strikes to megan's face area. >> i'm not resisting! >> this man starts hitting me. each time he hit my face, stop resisting, stop resisting! i'm not resisting. >> reporter: the officers then took graham down, handcuffed her and booked her for assault of a police officer, obstruction and resisting arrest. in a statement to the media chief brian wilson with the federal way police department said we are committed to a thorough and complete investigation into this matter. it is important for all of the facts and circumstances to be known. a use of force review has been initiated as well. we also spoke with meghan graham's husband. overnight he told us eyewitnesses say megan never struck the officers. he wanted to pass along megan's