Civil Liberties

As Woman's Home Burns, Cop Grabs Her By the Hair

This isn't the officer's first foray into bad manners

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A San Diego police sergeant is being investigated following a violent confrontation with a woman whose house was on fire.

The incident was caught on camera. The distraught woman, Torazzi Hayslett, was reluctantly being pulled away from the fire by her husband.

The video shot Friday by the editor of the Imperial Beach Patch appeared to show Hayslett, a second grade teacher, swinging her open hand at Sgt. Daniel McLaughlin after he grabbed her arm. The sergeant is then seen trying to drag her to the ground by her hair.