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A woman was tackled to the ground by police at a Alabama Waffle House. The police are defending the arrest.

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White police officers in Alabama wrestled a black woman to the ground in a Waffle House early Sunday morning, exposing her breasts during the struggle and prompting comparisons to two black men arrested in a Philadelphia Starbucks earlier this month.

Yet local police maintain that the three officers involved followed protocol and said the department is “not choosing to take any action at this time.” At a news conference Monday afternoon, officials said the woman and her friend were acting belligerently inside the Waffle House, drunkenly yelling profanity at the restaurant’s employees and threatening to return with a gun and “shoot this place up.