Jamee Kimble says she was driving her two young children and a friend to get groceries Saturday when Fairfax County Police officers intentionally rammed into her car and handcuffed her.
Police determined soon after the stop that Kimble was not the individual they were looking for. She is now demanding an apology.
“It was just so shocking and mind-wrecking,” Kimble tells NBC Washington. “Everything happened so fast that when I didn’t realize what was going on he had already hit us.”
Officers reportedly swarmed the car as Kimble was turning into the parking lot of the Walmart on Richmond Highway in Alexandria. One police cruiser, which FCPD officials told News4 was going less than 10 miles per hour, struck Kimble’s vehicle head-on.
“They drew their guns at me and my friend from both sides of the car,” adds Kimble, who says she was recovering from a C-section surgery that she had six days earlier. Kimble’s children were then placed in a police cruiser as she was being handcuffed.
Fairfax County officers, who Kimble says did not use lights or sirens to initiate the stop, were reportedly responding to an alert sent out by Arlington County police about a similar car that contained passengers considered to be armed and dangerous.
Kimble shared a video of the incident’s aftermath to her Instagram account, which has been viewed over 300,000 times.
“I still am very angry and, more than anything, hurt because I teach my children that the police are supposed to protect us, and that if they need anything they can call them for help,” Kimble tells News4. “I could have lost my life. My kids could have lost their lives. Luckily, everyone in the car was in a seatbelt.”
The Fairfax County Police Department is reviewing the incident.
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