Woman alleges man in controversial RPD arrest video guilty of hit and run

Police said Braily Batista-Concepcion was involved in three hit and runs before police caught and arrested him — an arrest recorded in a controversial video shared on social media. One of the alleged hit-and-run victims spoke with WRAL about what she says happened to her before his arrest.

The victim said she was driving along when she saw a driver heading in her direction at a high rate of speed. She said she can recall what happened very well, when, she says, she came face-to-face with an out-of-control driver.

"He was running from the devil," said the woman, who did not want to give her name or have her face shown on camera. "I don’t know if it was in his head, but he was running from something.”

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The woman said Batista-Concepcion sideswiped her car at high speed, and narrowly missed crashing into her car when she swerved.

"I don’t see how anybody at that time of the morning could think in their right mind that way," the woman said.

Police later found Batista-Concepcion, and the arrest was caught on camera in a viral video.

The video shows officers trying to get Batista-Concepcion out of the car. Police said he refused, and that is when you see officers punching and kneeing the 22-year-old.

"The officers are trained to react to threats, and I believe that was a threat to the people driving on the streets, me being one," the woman said.

The woman said she was just happy that officers stopped him, and she believes lives were saved because officers got to Batista-Concepcion in time.

Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman reviewed the police camera video on Thursday and declined to call in the State Bureau of Investigation for an outside review of the incident, police said​.