Rio Vista Police Officer Body-Slams Black Woman During 'Routine Traffic Stop'

Rio Vista Police Department started an excessive force investigation after one of its police officers was captured on camera slamming 31-year-old Cherish Thomas to the ground following a traffic stop.

Officers stopped a vehicle with four people inside on Harris Drive on Sunday for a suspended registration, NBCaffiliate KCRA first reported. All four refused to leave the car which prevented officers from impounding it, according to police, and that's when Tyrone Clayton Jr. called relatives to come to scene and they recorded the incident on a phone. []

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