Footage claims to shows police officer 'hitting' pregnant woman

An internal review is being launched within the Texas Rangers police force following footage which has emerged which appears to depict a police officer striking a heavily pregnant woman.

Deanna Robinson was 38 weeks pregnant when she was arrested at her parent's home in Dallas on charges of assault on a public servant, resisting arrest and interfering with child custody during an investigation on the 4th of March.

Deanna was pressed against a counter before being struck by an unidentified police officer, in a move which led the expectant woman to repeatedly shout: "I'm pregnant."

Commenting on the incident, Hunt County Sheriff, Randy Meeks, suggested the police officer may have been defending himself against a possible attack from Deanna Robinson, but asserts he is not in a position to say, stating: "Which narrative is correct, I don't know. I wasn't there."

The expectant mother, an Air Force veteran, has called for the officer in question to be charged with assault, with her lawyer asserting: "There was brute force against her, where she was obviously pregnant, it was not something that they could mistake."