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The officer asks Professor Ersula Ore for her ID. She refuses orders, and then there is a tussle. What happens next is a matter of academic debate, but the outcome is clear: The English professor ends up being thrown to the ground in a police incident that has since prompted public criticism.

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The recent incident caught on an Arizona State University police officer's dash cam began with a university professor walking across a street. The officer asks Professor Ersula Ore for her ID. She refuses orders, and then there is a tussle. What happens next is a matter of academic debate, but the outcome is clear:

The professor ends up being thrown to the ground in a police incident that has since prompted criticism, according to media reports.

ABC 6 reports that Professor Ore's rough arrest is creating a lot of debate on campus.

Yet, authorities reviewed the tape and circumstances, then released a statement saying investigators found no evidence of inappropriate actions by the officers involved, the station reported.

Dr. Ore, an English professor at the university, has since been charged with a felony for assaulting an officer.

Here is what is captured in the dashcam:

Ore was attempting to cross a campus street when she was stopped by Officer Stewart Ferrin who asked her for identification:

"The reason I'm talking to you right now is because you are walking in the middle of the street," Officer Ferrin can be heard saying on dashcam footage.

"Let me see your ID or you will be arrested for failing to provide ID," Ferrin said.

"Are you serious?" Ore asked.

"Yes, I am serious. That is the law," Ferrin replied.

"I never once saw a single solitary individual get pulled over by a cop for walking across a street on a campus, in a campus location. Everybody has been doing this because it is all obstructed. That's the reason why," Ore said to the officer. "But you stop me in the middle of the street to pull me over and ask me, 'Do you know what this is? This is a street.' "

"Are you aware that this is a street?" Ferrin asked.

"Let me finish," Ore said.

"OK, put your hands behind your back," Ferrin said.

"Don't touch me," Ore said. "Get your hands off me."

"Put your hand behind your back. I'm going to slam you on this car. Put your hand behind your back," Ferrin said.



"You really want to do that? Do you see what I'm wearing? Do you see?" Ore said.

Thanks to the tape, you can decide for yourself who was in the right and in the wrong in this academic debate.

Check out the video and tell us in the comments: