A police officer has been fired after being caught on camera dragging a handcuffed woman across a concrete floor.
The woman was arrested for trespassing and the body camera video subsequently captured by Officer Gregory Damon showed her refusing to leave his parked car.
After refusing to exit the car, the woman told Damon: "I want you to drag me."
The Tampa Police Department officer, who had served on that force since 2016, complied despite it being forbidden by policy.
He removed the woman from the car and dragged her to a doorway before buzzing for more officers to assist him.
The whole incident on November 17 at Orient Road Jail, Tampa, Florida, US, was captured on Damon's body worn camera.
Footage shows Damon open the car door by the suspect and ask her to get out. During some back and forth Damon can be heard warning: "I'll drag you out of this car. I don't want to drag you out but I need you to get out the car."
The woman says: "Drag me. I want you to drag me."
The officer pulls the suspect out the car onto the concrete floor before hooking her arm and dragging her across the concrete floor of the internal carpark.
As he does this the argument continues and Damon repeatedly asks her to stand up.
Once Damon had dragged the suspect across to the entrance of the building, he buzzes for help and even offers to "drag her in".
Further CCTV of the incident was released showing a wide angle view of the suspect being dragged across the car park.
The revised policy, introduced in 2013, forbade officers from dragging uncooperative suspects on the ground. Officers should instead seek help from jail booking staff or other police officers.
Tampa Police Department has been under particular public scrutiny recently after the local police chief flashed her badge to try and dodge a traffic ticket after she was caught in a golf cart on a main road.
Mary O'Connor, police chief of Tampa, was placed on administrative leave after a video emerged of the officer flashing her badge from the passenger seat of a golf cart on November 12.
Tampa Mayor Jane Castor placed O'Connor on leave pending an investigation after the incident in Oldsmar, a city northwest of Tampa.
The body camera video, posted online by the Tampa Police Department, shows O'Connor's husband driving the cart and the chief in the passenger seat when a Pinellas County sheriff's deputy pulls them over for not having a tag.
"Is your camera on?" O'Connor said. "I'm the police chief in Tampa."
"I'm hoping that you'll just let us go tonight," she says, showing the deputy her badge.
The deputy let them leave without a ticket, saying "it's nice meeting you."
In a statement, O'Connor said it was "poor judgement" for them to have taken the cart out on public roads without a tag.
The police chief added it was the first time they had driven it outside of a golf cart-friendly community where they own property.
