Indigenous mother says Winnipeg police officers physically and verbally attacked her at her home

WARNING: This story contains strong language and allegations of violence.

A Sayisi Dene woman was left feeling shaken and sore after she alleges Winnipeg police officers verbally and physically attacked her during an early morning confrontation in her home. 

"I was in shock. I couldn't believe it," said Charity Tom, who lives with three of her four children in Winnipeg's North End. 

Tom said she was sleeping downstairs on May 21 when she heard a loud knock on her front door around 4 a.m. 

When she answered the door, six police officers were standing in her yard and told her they had received a complaint from multiple people that there was a young, unsupervised child outside, she said. 

Tom, who's youngest child is eight years old, told police the child wasn't hers and shut the door — an interaction that was captured on Tom's home security camera. 

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Video footage shared with CBC News shows Tom answering the door again, which led to four officers entering her home. 

"You got the wrong address. This isn't the place," Tom said she told officers. 

She alleges one officer grabbed her throat and pushed her down a few steps on a staircase near the door while a second officer twisted her arm, which made her fall down on a step. 

In the video, an officer can be heard saying, "Do you want to get arrested or not?"

Tom can be heard saying that she isn't doing anything wrong and that she is trying to stand up when an officer says, "So then stop acting like a c--t. Stop f---ing flexing or I'm going to bring you to the drunk tank."

Tom told CBC she doesn't drink.

Winnipeg police spokesperson Const. Claude Chancy said the incident is under review.