in that case had filed a complaint alleging that she was beaten by officers, grabbed by the hair and slammedThe woman arrested into a patrol car. The records describe body camera footage showing that two different officers had struggled with the woman for several minutes, with one of them striking her with a baton, before Mr. Mills and others stepped in to assist. The woman “sustained bruises and abrasions during the struggle,” the records say.

Demetrius Haley, another one of the officers charged in Mr. Nichols’s death, was also reprimanded in 2021 for failing to file a report after grabbing someone by the arm to turn them around to make an arrest. Mr. Haley said at a hearing that he had been mistaken about “the amount of force necessary to require” such documentation.