A 68-year-old librarian is suing the City of Salisbury and the Rowan County Sheriff’s Department after she said they crossed the line in arresting her during a traffic stop.
They had guns to my head,” the woman who filed the lawsuit, Stephanie Bottom said Friday. “I was terrified.” WCNC Charlotte received the body camera video and the lawsuit itself.
The body camera video shows Salisbury Police and Rowan County Sheriff’s Deputies on a chase for more than 10 minutes, trying to get a woman to pull over for speeding.
Bottom, who was 67 years old at the time of the incident, said she didn’t know they were after her. But when she stopped that’s when things escalated quickly. “I was in terror and in fear of my life,” Bottom said. “I thought that I was going to die.”
