City Settles With 70-Yr-Old Woman After Body Cam Contradicts Officer's Claim She Was 'Resisting'

Chesapeake, Va. – The City of Chesapeake is dishing out $50,000 dollars to settle a lawsuit brought against police by 70-year-old Ruth Davenport.

“I’m as happy as a lark,” Davenport said Tuesday.

She says she’s happy today, but that comes after nine long months of fighting for justice. The lawsuit filed by Davenport back in November claims two police officers Joel Ayala-Acevedo and Anthony Echevarria were at her house to serve a search warrant for her son when one officer grabbed her by the arm, pushed her into a wall and threw her to the ground.

“I was screaming at the top of my lungs, ‘You’re hurting me, you’re hurting me,'” Davenport told NewsChannel 3 back in April.

In court documents, the officer claims Davenport was cursing and kicked him while resisting, but her charges were dropped. Davenport believes her saving grace was a video of what happened recorded on a body camera of one of the officers.

“I said the same story and I’m sticking to it. The same story over and over and I think the camera corroborated that,” she added.

The city has refused to release the video, but Davenport’s attorney, S.W. Dawson saw it himself.

“I think I can safely say that the video would have corroborated Ruth’s version of events in whole or in part,” Dawson said.