Texas woman files complaint against officers who allegedly abused her in her own home

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A Texas woman has lodged a complaint against four Travis County Deputies after she alleges they were physically and verbally abusive after they broke into her home at 3 in the morning.

“I was dumbfounded, honestly I’d never imagine something like this happening to me, I hear it on the news see on my newsfeed … but you never think about it happening to you,” Tori Thayer told Fox Austin about the August 2 incident.

Thayer said that when the deputies arrived at her Pflugerville home, they came inside before she could even reach the front door, and she was terrified that someone had broken into her home.

“I did I was ready to run for my life and throw something at them.”

When the deputies said that they were looking for her roommate, Carly Christine, Thayer explained that she did not know where Christine was. But when Thayer attempted to keep deputies from another roommate’s room, she says they grabbed her by the arm.

“And another officer got behind me and put his knee into my back and thrust me to the ground while one stayed on my chest the entire time and handcuffed me,” said Thayer.

Thayer was allowed back to her feet and asked the deputies to leave, but they ignored her.

“They acted as if I wasn’t even talking, they kept asking me where she was, and I had already had complied and told them everything I knew, at that point I was done, I couldn’t do anything and they just wouldn’t listen.”

Thayer told Fox Austin she filmed the incident because she “knew from the moment they walked in” that the officers had an “aggressive tone,” and she wanted to be sure she had evidence.

She lodged an official complaint on Wednesday.

You can watch the raw cell phone videos below. Warning: Graphic Language.