Bodycam: Ohio Woman Tased After Allegedly Ramming Police Cruisers. What the Record Actually Says.

This is a factual account of a real incident involving a real person who faces criminal charges. Every allegation described here is an allegation. Nothing in this article should be read as a finding that she did any of it, and I have no information indicating the case has been resolved.

I am also going to flag, as I go, the places where widely circulated versions of this story are simply wrong.

The core facts

The incident happened in Alliance, Ohio, a city of fewer than thirty thousand people in Stark County, on the evening of Tuesday, July 23, 2024.

According to News-Talk 1480 WHBC, a local station that reported it three days later, a thirty one year old Alliance woman was jailed on one hundred thousand dollars bond and faced felonious assault and other charges for driving into two city police cruisers.

The woman was named in that report as Kayla Ryder.

Police had been called to the Alliance Municipal Court parking lot on East Market Street, where, according to that report, she was blocking a man's car with her own vehicle. The station reported that she nearly struck a police officer while behind the wheel, that a Taser was used to restrain her, and that police said she confirmed being under the influence.

That is the account from the most local and most direct source I could find, published within seventy two hours of the event.

The date and age errors circulating online

Before going further, two corrections, because this story has been reposted so many times that the details have drifted.

A number of sites and video descriptions state that this happened on July 23, 2025. That appears to be wrong. The local station reported it in July 2024, describing an incident that had occurred that Tuesday, and July 23, 2024 was a Tuesday.

Some versions also describe the woman as thirty four years old. The local report from the time gives her age as thirty one.

This matters more than it seems. When a clip circulates for two years through dozens of aggregator channels, small errors get baked in, and by the time it reaches you the date, the age, and sometimes the charges have all shifted from the original reporting.

If you ever want to check one of these, the local outlet closest to the event, published closest to the date, is almost always the most reliable version available.

What the bodycam is described as showing

I have not viewed the raw footage in full, and much of what circulates is summarized commentary rather than primary reporting, so I am going to be careful here and label the reliability.

According to the Alliance Police Department's account as reported by multiple outlets, the woman was in her vehicle in the parking lot and officers repeatedly directed her to exit. She did not comply. She then put the vehicle in reverse and struck a marked cruiser behind her, and subsequently drove forward into another cruiser.

After she continued to refuse commands, officers deployed a Taser and removed her from the vehicle.

Secondary summaries of the footage, which I would treat as less reliable than the police statement and the local news report, describe additional detail. They say she remained confrontational, that she told officers to keep the man away from her, and that she referenced a custody dispute involving her son's father.

Those same summaries state that she made accusations against officers regarding a prior encounter, that a family member arrived and attempted to intervene and was warned to stay back, and that EMTs were called afterward to evaluate her.

I am reporting those as claims that appear in circulating summaries. I could not verify them against primary reporting, and I am not going to build any argument on them.

The charges

Reporting on the charges is broadly consistent, with some variation in how they are named.

The charges reported include felonious assault, obstructing official business, operating a vehicle impaired, resisting arrest, and unlawful restraint. Some accounts describe the obstruction count as a felony.

She was booked into the Stark County Jail. Bond was set at one hundred thousand dollars.

Each of those charges is an accusation made by the state. In the American system, an accusation is a claim the government must prove beyond a reasonable doubt to a jury, and the defendant is presumed innocent until it does.

I want to state that plainly rather than as boilerplate, because the entire economy of channels that repost this footage operates on the opposite assumption.

Why a car makes this a felony rather than a traffic offense

This is the part worth understanding regardless of what happened in Alliance, because it is the single most misunderstood element in every video like this one.

People assume that hitting a police car is a property matter. It is not. Under Ohio law, felonious assault covers causing or attempting to cause physical harm to another person by means of a deadly weapon or dangerous ordnance.

A motor vehicle can qualify as a deadly weapon. It does not have a trigger and it is not designed to hurt anyone, but the statutory definition turns on whether an object is capable of inflicting death and is used or possessed as a weapon.

A two ton vehicle driven at a person meets that definition without difficulty.

So the legal distinction is not about the damage to the cruiser. It is about whether a person was in or near the vehicle that was struck, and about what the driver was attempting.

That is why these cases produce felony charges that surprise people, and it is why a single moment of putting a car in gear can convert a situation that might have ended in a misdemeanor into one carrying years of exposure.

There is a further factor. Assault offenses against a peace officer performing official duties are typically enhanced in Ohio, meaning a charge that would already be serious becomes more serious when the person targeted is an officer.

Why the Taser

The second recurring question in videos like this one is why a Taser gets used on a person who is sitting in a car.

The general principle in use of force policy is that force must be objectively reasonable in the circumstances, and one of the central circumstances is what the person is doing and what they have access to.

A person who has already used a vehicle to strike two cruisers, and who remains in the driver's seat with the vehicle operable, is in continuing control of the thing that just did the striking. From a policy standpoint, that is not a static situation, it is an ongoing capability.

That is generally the justification for escalating from verbal commands to a less lethal option rather than continuing to negotiate through a window.

Worth noting from the earlier article in this series: Tasers fail frequently, for mundane physical reasons involving probe spread and clothing, and the outcome of a deployment is much less predictable than the public assumes.

The context question

There is a difficult layer in this case that I want to handle carefully.

According to reporting, the call originated with a man who was attempting to file a police report, and the woman was allegedly attempting to prevent him from doing so. Some accounts describe the underlying matter as domestic in nature.

Circulating summaries also indicate that she made her own allegations during the encounter, including references to a custody dispute and to a prior incident involving police.

I am not going to adjudicate any of that, and I would caution anyone reading this against doing so from a video.

What I will say is that situations involving domestic allegations, custody disputes, and mutual accusations are among the most difficult categories of call that patrol officers handle, precisely because the person who called and the person being complained about often have overlapping and contradictory claims, and because a responding officer at the scene has no ability to resolve any of it.

The legal system is designed to sort that out afterward. The roadside is not where it gets sorted out, and a bodycam clip is close to useless as evidence about who was right in the underlying dispute.

What I could not establish

I could not determine the outcome of this case.

Reporting from late 2024 described the case as open. I found no reliable source indicating a plea, a trial, a dismissal, or a sentence, and I am not going to guess.

If you need the current status, the correct place to look is the Stark County court records system or current local reporting, not a compilation channel.

I also want to note something about the source landscape here, because it is instructive.

The most reliable material on this incident is a short local radio news item of about a hundred words. The largest volume of material is video commentary, aggregator posts, and AI generated summaries of other people's summaries, several of which contain the wrong year and the wrong age.

That is the actual information environment around almost every one of these clips. A tiny amount of real reporting at the bottom, and an enormous amount of derivative content stacked on top of it, degrading with each layer.

Why the framing in these titles matters

The video that carries this story is titled in most places with a word like entitled attached.

That word is doing something specific. It tells you, before you watch, that what you are about to see is a person behaving badly out of arrogance, and it forecloses every other reading.

Consider what the reported facts actually describe. A woman in a courthouse parking lot, allegedly impaired, in the middle of a dispute involving another person and a custody matter, behaving in a way that was dangerous and that she is accused of criminally.

Impairment and desperation and a custody fight are not entitlement. They may not be excuses either. They are simply a different category of thing, and the title assigns a motive that no one in the footage could possibly know.

I am not arguing she should not have been charged. If the state's account is accurate, driving a vehicle into two occupied police cruisers is exactly the kind of conduct the felonious assault statute exists for.

I am arguing that the caption and the charge are answering different questions, and that the caption is answering one that nobody has the information to answer.

The practical takeaways

For readers who will never be in a courthouse parking lot in Alliance, Ohio, a few things generalize.

If police direct you to exit a vehicle during a lawful encounter, the roadside is not where that gets litigated. Every argument you have about whether the order is justified survives perfectly well into a courtroom, and none of it survives well into the next four seconds.

The moment a vehicle moves during a police encounter, the legal category of what is happening changes completely, from a possible misdemeanor to a possible violent felony, and it changes instantly and irreversibly.

If a third party is trying to file a report against you, interfering with that is itself an offense in most jurisdictions, and it converts a dispute in which you may have had a legitimate position into a case in which you are the defendant.

And if you are the person watching the video, the most useful habit is to check the local outlet nearest the incident before believing anything about the date, the age, the charges, or the outcome. In this case, three of those four were wrong somewhere in the chain.

Sources

News-Talk 1480 WHBC, local report on bond and charges, published July 26, 2024: https://www.whbc.com/high-bond-for-alliance-woman-accused-of-ramming-apd-cruisers/
Carscoops, contemporaneous coverage including bond amount and circumstances: https://www.carscoops.com/2024/08/small-town-ohio-drama-as-angry-woman-rams-mazda-into-cop-car/
Police account of the sequence and Taser deployment, policefootage.org (note: this source lists the year as 2025, which appears to be an error): https://policefootage.org/ohio-woman-tased-after-allegedly-ramming-two-police-cars-during-confrontation-in-alliance/
Summary of circulating bodycam commentary, including case status as open as of late 2024: https://unilever.edu.vn/intense-standoff-ohio-woman-tased-after-allegedly-ramming-police-cars/

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