Video captures police violently shoving Cassandra Feuerstein into cell, breaking her facial bones

A US woman says she is a victim of police brutality after video footage showing a cop violently throwing her into her cell, leaving her bleeding on the floor with broken facial bones.

Chicago woman Cassandra Feuerstein, 47, was arrested for drink driving last March by Skokie police and taken to a police holding cell, MyFoxChicago reports.

Graphic video footage shows Fuerestein leaving the cell after being called by police officer Michael Hart, who seconds later violently tosses her back into the cell face-first, NBC5 Chicago reports.

The shove sends her flying across the room, slamming her head into a concrete bench and leaving Feuerstein slumped on the floor bleeding as medical officers rush to her aid.

"It breaks most of the bones in her face, and opens up a gash on her right cheek leaving a big pool of blood on the cell floor. She actually had to have facial reconstructive surgery and now has a titanium cheek as a result," Feuerstein’s lawyer Torri Hamilton told MyFoxChicago.com.

Fuerestein is suing police for violating her civil rights after the police failed to discipline officer Hart - whom she slammed as "a bully".

"For my family to see me that way - the way I looked when I was finally let go – it was awful. If anyone else besides a police officer had done this to me, they would have been arrested," she said.

"I think when you look at this and you see the video which we are so fortunate to have, I think what you see is the cowardly act of a bully."

Fuerestein says she was compliant and followed police orders during her arrest, but officer Hart’s report charged her with resisting arrest, NBC Chicago reports. Those charges were thrown out and Fuerestein pleaded guilty to drink driving.

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