Female Fort Worth Cop Slams Cop Watcher's Face First Into The Sidewalk, Knocking Her Out

FORT WORTH – Police have released body cam footage showing the arrest of Carolyn Rodriguez, a self-described "cop watcher" who claims Fort Worth police officers used excessive force while arresting her on Sunday.

The video released Wednesday afternoon by the Fort Worth Police Department shows one of the officers asking Rodriguez to move multiple times while she was recording Fort Worth police investigating a hit-and-run incident.

In response, she asks the officer "Why?" After the officer tells her she is "under arrest," the video shows Rodriguez falling to the ground.

Rodriguez told CBS News – before the video was released – she was knocked unconscious and her elbow came out of its socket.

"I don't remember an officer hitting me, but I remember him tackling me, grabbing me from behind," Rodriguez said. "The next thing I know is I woke up in the hospital, chained to the bed, handcuffed to the bed."