Mother gets assaulted by police after asking why they were being rude

WSVN-TV
Mar. 03, 2011

MIAMI (WSVN) -- A woman has stepped forward saying she was a victim of excessive force by a City of Miami Police officer, even though, she said, she did nothing wrong.

"I went to jail, and it was something I should have never experienced," Andrea Castillo said. "I can't even imagine myself doing something like that."

Castillo, 31, is the mother of a 7-year-old boy, works full-time and is enrolled in school. She said, on Feb. 20, she was leaving a music festival at Bayfront Park with her husband and a few friends. As officers ushered the crowd out of the venue, Castillo said she became separated from her group, and that is when she had a confrontation with one of the officers. "When he told me to keep on going, he was kind of being really rude and kind of like pushing us out, so I turned around and said, 'Why are you talking to us like that?' He was just cursing and saying, 'Just go.'"

"Next thing I know, I'm getting pushed, and I'm getting thrown into a metal rail that was on the side. They pulled my arm and threw me. I got hit," recalled the 31-year-old.

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