SOUTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) - A woman captured on video being arrested in a rough manner has hired a lawyer.
Dyma Loving, 26, held a news conference with her lawyer on Tuesday to call for the arrest of a Miami-Dade Police officer.
The video, shared by thousands online, showed officers taking Loving down to the ground and placing her in handcuffs in the area of Southwest 201st Street and 113th Place on March 5.
MDPD has since launched an investigation, and an officer was relieved of duty, as well.
“What Dyma Loving came here today to do is to express her willingness and her wanting for this officer to face criminal charges immediately,” attorney Justin A. Moore said. “She wants to press charges against Alejandro Giraldo. She wants to press assault charges against the other officers who also assisted in assaulting her that day.”
In addition to asking for criminal charges, Moore said they plan to file a civil rights claim against the man who was arrested for pointing a gun at her, the officer involved in the arrest and the Miami-Dade Police Department.
Civil rights attorney Ben Crump compared Loving’s incident to an unrelated case where 32-year-old Latasha Walton was shot and killed by a Florida Highway Patrol trooper.
“If we don’t do something about this recent trend of police engagement and excessive use of force against black women, what happened to Dyma then escalates and then you have just an unnecessary, unconscionable [and] unjustifiable killing of a 32-year-old mother of two,” said Crump.
Walton was killed during a traffic stop that ended with the trooper shooting multiple times into her vehicle.
“Why did you have to do that? We will never heal from this,” said Allison Wright, Walton’s sister.
“At the end of the day, the whole moral to my story is that I want justice,” added Alphonso Wright, Walton’s brother.
FHP officials said Walton accelerated towards the trooper before he fired at her.
Crump is now asking the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate Walton’s death.
“It needs to be fully but thoroughly investigated,” said Crump.
Loving is asking the Miami-Dade County State Attorney’s Office to take action in her case.
“I definitely want criminal charges pressed against the officer who put his hands on me and the officers who stood by and didn’t speak up,” said Loving.
7News reached out to both MDPD and FHP for a comment. Only MDPD responded and said they would not release any new statements.
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