Wasilla Police Officers Drag Alaska Native Woman from Walmart

A Facebook live video is making the rounds on social media after being viewed more than five thousand times.

Video taken by Wasilla resident Mike Linn appears to show two unmasked Wasilla Police officers dragging an Alaska Native woman out of a Wasilla Walmart yesterday evening. The video has some on social media calling into question tactics employed by the police department.

In the video, which is roughly eight minutes long, you can hear one officer tell the woman that she is "trespassing" at the Walmart location. It appears an officer had a knee on the woman's neck at one point in the video.

Bystanders repeatedly ask the officers what they're doing to the Alaska Native woman, as two male officers forcibly restrained the woman on the ground, telling her, "You don't have a choice, you're not in control right now."

The woman, identified in the video as Tanisha, appears to have been "hogtied" and dragged out of the Walmart by Wasilla Police Department Officers and tossed into the back of a police vehicle—but not before being placed facedown onto the snow-covered ground by the officers.

One commenter on the original video thread shared to Facebook claims the woman in the video "trashed a bathroom" at the Wasilla Walmart, but that remains an unconfirmed detail. Others commented that the whole story about the situation wasn't being told.

A woman can be heard off-camera saying that the officers are taking the woman "away like a goddamn animal," and later shouts, "fuck the police!"

The entire video recorded by Linn can be watched below.