Woman punched by police officer at NJ beach shares her side of the story

[Judi Lynn]

Good Morning America MORGAN WINSOR, KELLY MCCARTHY and JULIA JACOBO

The woman who was captured on video being repeatedly punched by a police officer on a Jersey Shore beach over the Memorial Day weekend is still grappling with the emotional "trauma," she said Wednesday.

"Now that this happened, it's a trauma," Emily Weinman, 20, said in an interview on ABC News’ "Good Morning America" with co-anchor Amy Robach. "It's going to take me a while to look at a police officer the same way, and it's sad because you have police officers out here that aren't doing their job and then you have police officers out here that are doing their job and they get the bad rap."

May 26 cellphone video captured the officer as he hit Weinman multiple times in the head in front of onlookers, including her 1-year-old daughter, on a beach in Wildwood, New Jersey.

The 54-second video was taken by Alexis Hewitt, who has said was asleep on a beach towel next to Weinman when the commotion began. Hewitt awoke and started recording the encounter with her cellphone, she said, later posting the footage on Twitter. The video has been viewed more than 7 million times.

PHOTO: The Wildwood Police Department released body camera footage worn by officers involved in a May 26, 2018 incident in which a woman was repeatedly punched by one of the officers on a New Jersey beach. (Wildwood Police)

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1. "... Wildwood Mayor Ernie Troiano said the body camera footage will show the woman spitting

at the officers and kicking one in the groin ..."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/wildwood-new-jersey-woman-emily-weinman-punched-by-cop-beach/

"... Weinman was arrested in 2016 on $10,000 bail. She was charged with burglary, simple assault, criminal mischief, criminal trespass, and reckless endangerment. Weinman plead guilty to simple assault and reckless endangerment. She received four years of probation for the crime ..."
https://www.cheatsheet.com/health-fitness/things-to-know-about-emily-weinman-and-her-nj-beach-arrest-that-went-viral.html/?a=viewall