Chico >> A Facebook video depicting the arrest of two female Chico State students on The Esplanade late Saturday night has been shared and viewed thousands of times.

The Chico Police Department’s arrest log from Saturday shows that 19-year-old Nicole Braham and 21-year-old Madeline Hemphill were booked into county jail for resisting, delaying or obstructing an officer.

The video had been seen more than 85,000 times on Facebook and shared 1,100 times as of 5 p.m. Monday. In the video’s description, a roommate of the women arrested, 20-year-old Genna Little writes: “My roommates were victim of police brutality last night in Chico, CA. They were sober and outside her home. The officer abused them, both verbally and physically, and then sent her to jail for a ‘broken tail light’ that wasn’t broken at all.”

In a comment on the Facebook video, Braham said, “I had just parked and I was getting out of my roommate’s car. There was no point at which I was pulled over. When I tried to walk into my house he got out of his car and yelled at me to drop my things and “you’re being detained.”

By 4 p.m. Monday, the Chico Police Department issued a press release stating that the incident was being reviewed. Police Chief Mike O’Brien said that officer Steve Dyke, who is the officer predominantly shown in the video making the arrest, will continue to work in the meantime.

He said it all could have been avoided if the women had stayed in their car when they were pulled over for the traffic violation, as opposed to exiting the car and heading toward their home.

“At worst, it would have been a fix-it ticket,” he said.

The press release starts out at a separate traffic stop, where Dyke noticed Hemphill filming him conduct a driving under the influence investigation. He also noticed a car with the license plate light out pull up beside her, but he was not sure whether or not she got in.

About an hour later, Dyke saw the car with the missing light again and decided to pull it over for a traffic violation on the 1000 block of The Esplanade, according to the press release.

Then, it says, the young women got out and refused to get back in after three requests made by the officer. It says Braham pushed by Dyke and he decided to detain her. Dyke realized at this point the woman he saw filming the DUI stop an hour earlier, Hemphill, was on the scene, had moved behind the officer and yelled, the press release said.

Then, the video seen on Facebook starts. The young women say the officer has no right to arrest them and that they were just walking into their home. Braham is standing one minute, then on the ground and it’s unclear what happened.

According to the press release: “While Braham was pulling away, Officer Dyke made the decision to allow her own momentum to carry her to the ground.”

It says Hemphill also resisted detention by several officers. She was taken to the ground for arrest.

Hemphill and Braham received knee scrapes from the incident.

O’Brien commended the third woman on the scene, who filmed without ever obstructing the officers.

“She didn’t interfere. She wasn’t detained,” he said. “The mere act of videotaping is not a problem, as long as it’s done safely. That’s important.”

Braham was contacted for this story but did not respond for comment.