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Aniyyah Harrell, 22, appears in court in Jersey City yesterday, March 17 2017, on charges she assaulted a police officer at Walmart in Kearny.

JERSEY CITY - A 22-year-old Pennsylvania woman has been charged with kicking a police officer arresting her following a disturbance at Walmart in Kearny on Thursday.

Aniyyah Harrell is charged with aggravated assault on a police officer, resisting arrest and purposely causing or recklessly creating the risk of public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm, the criminal complaint says.

Responding officers said they were flagged down by about 15 customers and employees who directed them to the grocery section vestibule where Harrell was assaulting someone, the criminal complaint says.

"Harrell's behavior was out of control as she was kicking, pulling away from officer, screaming and cursing." When the officers managed to calm Harrell down, she allegedly provided a fake name, the complaint says.

An officer helped Harrell make a few phone calls in an attempt to get a ride but she again became belligerent and violent and the officers placed her under arrest. While being handcuffed, Harrell allegedly kicked an officer in the knee twice, the complaint says.

Harrell made her first appearance on the charges yesterday in Criminal Justice Reform Court in Jersey City via video link from Hudson County jail in Kearny. At the hearing, she was order released pending trial with conditions of supervision.