From [HERE] A Black woman has filed a civil rights lawsuit over a December 31, 2019 incident in which she was forcibly detained and bloodied by BART police officers over fare evasion at San Leandro's Bayfair Station.

24-year-old SaTae'zja Devereaux admits that she skipped paying her BART fare on that day twenty months ago. But she and her attorney, Adante Pointer, say that a $3.60 infraction should not have led to such a brutal incident — and they have now released BART Police body camera footage showing how it went down, which they gave to KTVU.

In the video, we see three officers — Brian Lucas, now a sergeant, Karl Carpio, and Casey Tyler — approach Devereaux as she tries to exit the station. She looks for her BART ticket but says she can't find it, and one of the officers says that they saw her slide through a turnstile behind someone else.

Devereaux offers to pay the fare, but one officer says, "That's not the way this works," and asks her to give her ID to one of the other officers, telling her she is being detained and is not free to leave.

"Either give the officer your ID, or you will be placed in handcuffs and we will decide whether or not you are going to jail," the officer says.

Devereaux continues to ask, "Why can't I just pay for it?" and refuses to show her ID, after which the officers move to physically detain her.

The video then shows cops attack Devereaux and show her on the ground with blood on her face. The lawsuit claims that Lucas struck her twice in the face.

Devereaux was jailed by BART police and charged with resisting arrest and fare evasion, though those charges were ultimately dropped.

She tells KTVU that she would have ultimately shown the officers her ID, but she wanted to know whether that would prevent them from taking her to jail. "I did not want to go to jail," she says. "I know that sounds super backwards. But in my mind, if I give them my information, I was going to jail anyway.”