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ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHEC) — News10NBC has obtained new video of the moments after a Rochester Police Investigator made a controversial arrest of an EMT inside the Emergency Department at Strong Memorial Hospital.  The incident happened back in July, the investigator is currently on administrative leave and the Rochester Police Department tells News10NBC the internal investigation is ongoing. 

The case was brought to light after News10NBC obtained and aired a video from inside the emergency room that shows RPD Investigator Charles LoTiempo rush up to Monroe Ambulance EMT Lekia Smith while she is tending to a patient on a stretcher, grab her, pull her arms behind her back and push her up against a reception desk before cuffing her and bringing her outside. 

Smith had opened the door of the ambulance into the door of the unmarked police car LoTiempo had parked in the emergency vehicle bay at Strong Memorial Hospital.   LoTiempo asked for Smith’s name and identification, at first she didn’t think she hit the car and then told him she would handle it after she got her patient inside and unloaded.    

The body-worn camera video provided by a source to News10NBC Investigative Reporter Jennifer Lewke shows the moments following LoTiempo’s arrest of Smith inside the Emergency room.   

Smith is walked out in handcuffs and placed in the back of a police car.  About five minutes later, a supervisor from Monroe Ambulance arrives and speaks with Smith, he then turns around to talk with LoTiempo.  The video appears to be purposely muted during that conversation but picks back up when LoTiempo decides to get into the back of the police car to speak with a still handcuffed Smith.

While some of the audio is muffled because the video is from a body-worn camera on an officer who was outside the car, you can hear Smith and LoTiempo argue over whether she initially even realized she had hit his car. “You were being nasty right away,” she tells him at one point. .........more.......