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REPORTER: WHAT STARTED OFF AS A ROUTINE TRAFFIC STOP FOR A SUSPENDED VEHICLE REGISTRATION QUICKLY ESCALATED INTO THIS. A RIO VISTA POLICE OFFICER BODY SLAMMING CHERISH THOMAS TO THE GROUND. >> OH, NO. OH, NO. >> WHAT CAN I DO AT THIS POINT? HE’S A POLICE OFFICER. AND I’M A BUCK 20, SO WHAT AM I GOING TO DO? FIGHT HIM? NO. REPORTER: THOMAS AND HER MOTHER DROVE TO THE SCENE AFTER HER SIBLINGS CALLED THEM TO SAY THEY WERE PULLED OVER BY POLICE. >> I HAVE FOUR KIDS IN THAT CAR, I WANTED TO MAKE SURE THEY WERE OK. REPORTER: THEY SAY THEY WANTED TO RECORD EVERYTHING ON THEIR CELL PHONES FOR TRANSPARENCY. >> I WAS SCARED, I’M NOT GOING TO LIE. BECAUSE AT THE END OF THE DAY, THAT’S A POLICE OFFICER, AND THEY CAN DO WHAT THEY WANT TO DO. REPORTER: POLICE SAY THEY DETAINED THE FAMILY BECAUSE THEY WOULD NOT ALLOW OFFICERS TO IMPOUND THE CAR. THE FAMILY SAYS THEY HAD THE PROPER DOCUMENTATION. AND THOMAS STEPBROTHER RECORDED THIS VIDEO AFTER BEING DETAINED. >> JUST BEING PULLED OVER, I FEAR FOR MY LIFE EVERY TIME AS AN AFRICAN AMERICAN IN RIO VISTA. REPORTER: THE POLICE CHIEF SAYS THE FAMILY’S CELL PHONE VIDEOS ONLY SHOW PART OF THE INCIDENT. AND HE PLANS TO RELEASE THE OFFICERS BODY CAMERA VIDEOS BY THE END OF THE WEEK. THE VIDEOS ONLY SHOW PART OF THE ARREST. THE CAMERA MOVING BACK AND FORTH. THE POLICE CHIEF SAYS THOMAS PUSHED THE OFFICER AND RESISTED ARREST. AS HER MOTHER RECORDING THE VIDEO TRIED TO HIT HIM, WHICH IS WHEN HE TACKLED THOMAS TO THE GROUND. >> I END UP GETTING DIPPED LIKE A FOOTBALL PLAYER. LOOK AT MY BABY AND HOW BIG THE OFFICER WAS TOWARDS HER. WHAT HE DID WAS UNCALLED FOR. REPORTER: AS MOM AND DAUGHTER WERE BEING ARRESTED, THE POLICE CHIEF SAYS TWO OTHER RELATIVES WERE ALREADY DETAINED. HE SAYS THEY WERE TRYING TO BREAK OUT OF THE PATROL CAR BY KICKING THE DOOR AND WINDOW. HE SAYS THERE WERE SO MANY CONFRONTATIONAL FAMILY MEMBERS. THAT THEY HAD TO CALL IN BACK-UP FROM SOLANO COUNTY AND SACRAMENTO COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE. THOMAS JUST GOT HOME FROM THE HOSPITAL. >> MY HEAD HIT THE GROUND FIRST. I KNOW MY LEGS HIT THE GROUND HARD BECAUSE THEY’RE ALL SCRAP UP. REPORTER: HER FAMILY SAYS THEY WANT JUSTICE. >> I WANT TO SEE THE SAME AGGRESSIVE ACTION THAT HE TOOK WITH MY CHILD DONE TO HI I WOULD LIKE TO SEE HIM FIRED. REPORTER: WHAT YOU DON’T SEE IN THOSE VIDEOS, THE MOTHER, DESHAUNNA PAYNE, SAYS THE OTHER OFFICER TOOK HER DOWN AS WELL. POLICE SAY BOTH MOM AND DAUGHTER HAVE BEEN CHARGED WITH RESISTING ARREST AND OBSTRUCTING AN INVESTIGATION. BRIAN: MARLEI, WHAT CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT THESE OFFICERS, AND THEIR STATUS TONIGHT? REPORTER: THE POLICE CHIEF TELLS ME THEY ARE NOT ON LEAVE. HE SAYS THEY BOTH HAVE BEEN IN LAW ENFORCEMENT UNDER FIVE YEARS. ONE OF THE OFFICERS, SIX MON

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The Rio Vista Police Department launched an internal investigation after cellphone videos surfaced showing an officer body slamming 31-year-old Cherish Thomas to the ground.Police Chief Dan Dailey said the investigation is looking into if the officer used excessive force during a traffic stop. The incident began as a routine traffic stop along Harris Drive on Sunday evening. Officers stopped a car for suspended registration, Dailey said. They detained all four people inside the car because officers said they refused to the exit the vehicle, preventing the officers from impounding the car. Thomas' family said they had the proper documentation and the officers refused to review it. One of the passengers, Tyrone Clayton Jr., called his relatives to come to the scene in order to record the incident on their cellphones for transparency. “Just being pulled over, I fear for my life every time as an African American in Rio Vista,” Clayton said. Clayton’s stepsister, Cherish Thomas, and his stepmother, Deshaunna Payne, arrived on the scene and started recording the incident on their phones. “I have four kids in that car," Payne said. "I wanted to make sure they were OK."Dailey said Thomas and Payne obstructed the investigation. Officers said Thomas pushed one of them as Payne tried to hit the other officer. Dailey said that is when the officer tackled Thomas to the ground.“(The) officer tackled her to the ground in order to gain control of her while his partner stepped in to take Deshaunna Payne into custody,” Dailey said in a news release.| RELATED | Rio Vista PD release body cam video of officer body slamming womanThomas said she did not push the officer. “What can I do at this point? He’s a police officer. And I’m (120 pounds)," she said. "So what am I going to do? Fight him? No."Payne said she was not being aggressive towards the officers. “I wasn’t trying to attack them. He slammed my baby," she said. "I went in mother mode to protect my child."Thomas returned home after going to the hospital on Monday. She said the officer slammed her head into the ground. She said she has suffered from headaches, sore legs and arms since the arrest. “I was scared. I’m not going to lie. Because at the end of the day, that’s a police officer, and they can do what they want to do,” she said.Her family wants justice. “I want to see the same aggressive action that he took with my child done to him. Yes, I would like to see him fired,” Payne said. According to police, Thomas and Payne have been charged with resisting arrest and obstructing an investigation. Dailey said the family’s videos only show a portion of the incident and he plans to release the officers’ body camera videos by the end of the week to “show the totality of this situation.”Dailey said a third car arrived on the scene with more family members who were “confrontational and uncooperative.” He said officers had to request assistance from the Solano and Sacramento County sheriff offices to deal with the crowd. He added that two other relatives who were detained during the traffic stop tried to escape the patrol car by kicking the door and window. They were charged with felony vandalism.