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An Orlando woman is suing an Orange County deputy for allegedly using excessive force during a violent 2017 takedown captured on the officer’s body camera.

Loushar Baerga, 47, was standing in her front yard, near where a driver crashed into her backyard fence when Deputy Feki Tai called out to her as he attempted to clear the crash scene, according to a roughly three-minute clip from Tai’s camera published by the Orlando Sentinel.

“Ma’am you need to step away from the car, alright?” Tai yells as he began approaching Baerga. “Step away from the car.”

The deputy had arrived at the scene roughly an hour before the video starts and was tasked with securing the site until highway troopers arrived, according to the Sentinel. The two had had multiple exchanges with each other in that time as Baerga poked around trying to find out what happened — at one point reportedly calling  911 over Tai’s behavior.

But their final altercation quickly escalated after Tai called out to Baerga, who didn’t respond.

“Put your hands behind your back!” Tai says as he meets her on the lawn, grabbing her right arm.

She responds, “What are you doing?”

Tai then repeatedly screams, “Stop fighting!”

Baerga denies she is resisting and shouts out in pain, “I’m not fighting, I just got here.”

Tai then insists Baerga was “aggravating the scene” and tells her he gave her “plenty of warnings.”

After placing Baerga in cuffs, the deputy drags her to into his cruiser, where she is taken to jail for resisting an officer without violence — though the charges were later dropped.

Baerga is now suing for an unspecified amount under $2 million, claiming her injury has left her out of work.

“She was merely a small, thin woman who had no means of resistance other than verbal protest over what she viewed as an unjust verbal assault for her attempts to find out what happened to her home,” according to the lawsuit reviewed by the Sentinel.

Tai came under internal review after the incident and was cleared of any wrongdoing in a 2018 decision from the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, the outlet reported.

“There was no evidence submitted or discovered to support Ms. Baerga’s allegation of excessive use of force by Deputy Tai,” the office determined.

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