"I brought him the video," Diamond told The Tribune on Thursday. "I believed I played him the video, if not, I talked to him about the video. And I suggested we not pursue the case."
But Diamond said her supervisor was insistent the case go forward. She said she was told that regardless of the officer's actions, Anderson should still be prosecuted for misdemeanor charges of intoxication and spitting at an officer.
Diamond said Fisher also told her that he would discuss the issue with his boss, then-top city prosecutor, Padma Veeru-Collings, and would forward the video up the chain of command, and to the police, for an investigation. She assumed that had happened.
But when Salt Lake City Police Chief Mike Brown said Wednesday that his department was unaware of the violent arrest until this week, Diamond said she was "shocked and angered."
"I don't know what the truth is," she said.
Tessa Hansen, Anderson's defense attorney, said she also believed that the police were investigating Reinwand after the case was dismissed in March of last year.
However, no investigation into Reinwand's conduct appears to have begun until this week, when the arrest footage appeared on online, prompting the chief to describe the filmed events as "abhorrent."
Anderson, now 43, was being arrested in a driveway after a complaint of a domestic disturbance the night of Oct. 9, 2014, when, in the video, Anderson appears to spit at Reinwand. With Anderson's 9-year-old daughter distraught and crying in the background, Reinwand appears to punch Anderson and take her to the ground. He can be heard repeatedly calling Anderson a "bitch" and "idiot" along with other profanities.
He also can be heard telling Anderson: "You deserve to have your ass kicked."
Anderson was subsequently charged with two misdemeanors. Anderson's attorneys obtained the video in discovery and confronted prosecutors, said Hansen, a public defender.
"We, of course, saw that there were some real problems with how she was treated; we wanted to make sure we gave her the very best defense that we could," Hansen said.
Hansen recalled that prosecutors acknowledged the video could make it difficult to secure a conviction against Anderson. Then Reinwand did not show up to testify at Anderson's preliminary hearing in March 2015.
"We were told the police department was aware of the incident and was investigating," Hansen said. "We believed that this was being investigated, and given that the officer wasn't there, I assumed that was [a result] of the investigation."
But Diamond said she spoke with Reinwand after he didn't show up at the hearing, and he said he didn't want the case to go forward.
"He said he didn't want to come," she said. "He was very embarrassed by his actions."
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