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Viral footage has recorded the moment a pregnant woman is thrown to the ground by a police officer.
The video captures a tense exchange between several law enforcement officials and what appears to be a person and a heavily pregnant woman.
Firstly of the clip, officers stand gathered in a corridor while a girl stands a brief distance away with a person.
One officer approaches the lady and speaks to her.
Seconds later, one other officer, carrying a baton and with a German Shepherd dog on a lead, walks directly towards the lady.
He then appears to grab her by the arm and pull her forwards before forcefully throwing her to the ground in the course of the corridor.
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A person, understood to know the lady, then rushes forward and tries to punch the officer with the dog.
The officer strikes back before several other officers quickly move in and a melee breaks out.
A later clip appears to indicate the lady looking dazed as two officers drag her along the ground further down the corridor while people nearby watch on.
At the identical time, three other officers will be seen restraining the person on the bottom because the confrontation continues around them.
It is known the incident took place at a centre for asylum seekers in Zeist, a town near Amsterdam within the Netherlands.
Some online reports claim that officers were responding to reports of vandalism and threats involving a knife on the centre.
During their enquiries, they got here into contact with a 30-year-old Palestinian man who’s reportedly facing deportation proceedings and had been subject to an entry ban.
It’s reported that he’s the person within the video who tried to punch the officer and that the pregnant woman was his wife.
The girl told local media outlets that the altercation took place after she spoke to police on the detention centre where her husband was being detained.
He was later arrested, in response to reports.
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