Moments Police threw black woman to floor, say they will “break” her arm during arrest in Alabama. VIDEO

A new viral video shows police at a Waffle House in Saraland, Alabama, throwing a black woman on the ground on Sunday, exposing her breasts and suggesting they might “break” her arm after she didn’t cooperate.

According to CBS News, the woman, Chikesia Clemons, was waiting for a waitress to give her the district manager’s phone number after she refused to pay for plastic utensils that she had asked for with her order. Clemons’s waitress canceled the order after Clemons said that she and her friend didn’t have to pay for utensils at the same Waffle House the previous night, Chiquitta Clemons-Howard, Clemons’s mother, told AL.com.

As Clemons waited for the district manager’s card to file a complaint, the officers arrived. The video, filmed by Clemons’s friend Canita Adams, shows the officers grabbing Clemons and throwing her to the floor.

“What are you doing?” Clemons asked.

“I’m about to break your arm — that’s what I’m about to do,” one officer responded.

The officers proceeded to arrest her. She was booked on charges of disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, according to Clemons-Howard.

The Saraland Police Department is investigating the incident. “When the facts of the investigation are gathered, we will have a response,” the department said in a Facebook post on Sunday.

Waffle House is also investigating the incident. Spokesperson Pat Warner said, “there is reason to doubt Clemons’s version of events.”

Video of the incident went viral, drawing comparisons to another incident at a Starbucks in Philadelphia in which an employee called the police on two black men who were reportedly waiting for a business associate. It’s not clear who called the police in the Waffle House case.

Regardless of who called the police, the escalation of the arrest once again puts a spotlight on police use of force in America, particularly against black Americans. There are vast racial disparities in how police use force. And these kinds of incidents, in which a dispute over plastic utensils can escalate into a violent arrest, are a major reason that police have lost so much trust and legitimacy within the black community