A veteran was detained by the National Guard in her front yard. Now she's suing

Ring video shows veteran Anna King being detained by National Guard troops. ACLU of the District of Columbia/Screenshot by NPR hide caption

Anna King was sitting on a bench one afternoon outside her home on a busy street in Washington, D.C., scrolling on her phone when three National Guard members entered her front gate, confronted her and pushed her to the ground, tying her hands behind her back with zip ties.

The incident, which happened on May 8, was caught on a Ring security camera .

"Get away from me right now," King, a retired U.S. Army captain who served in Iraq and earned both a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star, can be heard telling the three male guard members in the video as they approach her on the bench. "You have absolutely no authority to detain me."

As she tries to make her way to her front steps to go inside, the three Idaho National Guard members grab King and wrestle her to the ground. You can hear King yelling "Get off of me!" and coughing, while two of the troops tighten the zip ties on her hands.

Now, the ACLU of the District of Columbia and the private law firm Levy Firestone Muse have filed a federal tort claim against the Idaho National Guard on King's behalf, seeking $3 million in damages from what they describe as an assault that led to lasting and serious injuries.

The National Guard says King was approached by the troops because she was suspected of assaulting a guard member two days earlier, something her attorneys called "baseless" in their filing. They say no charges around such an incident have been filed against King.

The three guardsmen who detained King are among nearly 5,000 National Guard members deployed to D.C. as part of President Trump's anti-crime task force. It was launched last August, despite a 30-year-low in crime . All of the troops in the task force have been deputized as special police by the U.S. Marshals Service and are carrying handguns — which is rare for a domestic National Guard deployment.