Edmonton woman seeking help from witnesses for an allegation of police brutality.

Edmonton woman Fabyan Deschamps is speaking out after what she is calling a traumatic experience involving an Edmonton Police Service officer.

Deschamps said back in August, she and a group of people were in a parking lot along Fort Road when they were approached by two officers and asked to give their names.

Deschamps says she complied with the officer, who then allegedly threw her to the ground.

“He grabbed me by the back of the head and then smashed my face right into the cement,” Deschamps said. “When I came to, when I looked at myself in the mirror — it looked like I got hit by a bus or something.”

Deschamps has been recovering from injuries to her face and back — but it’s the scars you can’t see that she’s really struggling with.

“Ever since then, I’ve had a lot of headaches and memory problems and emotionally really overwhelmed, ,” she said. “I’m scared to go outside sometimes and every time that I hear a police siren or helicopters.