A pregnant woman who was pulled over for talking on her cellphone – and then tossed to the ground and hogtied by CHP officers on the shoulder of the busy Harbor Freeway – has been paid $250,000 in damages.

The 30-year-old woman was charged with resisting arrest and driving with a suspended license, but the charges were dropped after a video of the incident was played in court. The video was recorded on a camera mounted on the dashboard of a CHP cruiser.

“The conduct here is outrageous. What these officers did here was bewildering to me. They knew she was pregnant,” said Howard Price, the attorney for Tamara Gaglione. “She never resisted arrest.”

The eight-minute video of the August 2011 video shows a CHP officer tailing Tamara Gaglione on the 110 Freeway, with the Los Angeles skyline in the distance.

Once the woman pulls to the shoulder of the highway, after first pulling into the fast lane, a pair of CHP officers order her to get out of her dark green Dodge Caravan and put her hands in the air. Instead, the video shows, she stands and stares at the patrolman, appearing confused.

The action then picks up quickly in the video:

Guns drawn, the officers approach the driver and then one of the patrolman sweeps away her legs with a kick and pushes her to the asphalt. Another officer then presses his knee into the woman’s back and pins her to the ground.

At another point, it appears the woman is kicked in her left ribs. Eventually she is hogtied and placed in a squad car.

“I’d never seen a gun for real before,” Gaglione said later. “I just froze. I was scared they’d shoot me.”

In their report, the officers said the woman had ignored their orders and appeared to raise her arms in an aggressive manner after hopping out of the van.

Based on a report filed by one of the patrolmen, Officer Daniel Hernandez, Gaglione was charged by the Los Angeles city attorney with misdemeanor evading and resisting arrest and driving on a suspended license.

After the charges were dismissed, Gaglione pleaded no contest to a simple infraction of using her cellphone while driving. Gaglione and her attorney said the judge questioned the actions of the officers.

CHP officials declined to discuss the incident, or the $250,000 settlement. The officers involved in the incident remain on the force, the Highway Patrol said.