ULSTER – A 26-year-old nursing aide says she will join a lawsuit against Ulster County and a deputy sheriff filed by another woman who accused Deputy Sheriff Brian Woltman, Jr. with violating her civil rights.
An incident captured on video on Monday, December 28, 2020 at around 3:45 p.m. shows Shana Shaw, a black woman, who was picking up food when she said she was unlawfully arrested in the Buffalo Wild Wings’ parking lot on Ulster Avenue in the Town of Ulster.
The video shows Woltman, the son of County Legislator Brian Woltman, dragging Shaw out of her vehicle and onto the ground where she maintains she was accosted by Woltman and another male officer.
She claims Woltman never asked her for her driver’s license or vehicle registration.
The video provide by a public relations firm, which released information about the incident, said while the two officers kneeled over Shaw and threatened to tase her, they told her to stop resisting as she screamed “I’m not resisting” twice before she is taken to a police.
The PR company’s news release charged Woltman used excessive force resulting in Shaw sustaining nerve damage to her wrist from handcuffs, and bruises on her body, putting her out of work as a nursing aide for days.
Last May, a formal complaint was filed against the deputy accusing him of false detention and using excessive force against another woman, Katherine Bradley.
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