Aspen Azalea has attended a good number of public meetings where officials talk about data centers — and she said she isn’t usually quiet.

“I have a habit of talking at data center meetings,” said Azalea, 27, a day after she was arrested at a planning commission meeting in Utah County. “But never have I been met with such excessive force.”

At a rally Wednesday afternoon at the Utah Capitol, Azalea spoke to some 75 friends and protesters who gathered in spite of intermittent rain. She led them in a chant — ”One struggle, one fight, climate justice, human rights” — and described what had happened in the previous 24 hours.

The night before, Azalea was arrested and briefly jailed after she was tossed by a Utah County Sheriff’s deputy onto the stone floor outside a meeting of the Utah County Planning Commission in Provo. A video of Azalea’s arrest went viral Wednesday.

The planning commission had just approved an ordinance to place some regulations on data centers in unincorporated parts of the county. Protesters chanted “shame, shame” after the commission’s vote, and the board’s chair, Shayne Pierce, directed deputies to remove Azalea from the meeting.

In a statement Wednesday, the Utah County Sheriff’s Office said deputies tried to move Azalea and two of her fellow protesters out of the meeting after Tuesday night’s vote. When one deputy “took hold” of Azalea, the sheriff’s office said, she made contact with the deputy’s groin.

Azalea — who is 5-foot-2 and said she weighs 120 pounds, about half the size of the deputy — denied this in the interview Wednesday.

“I’m a nonviolent person,” she said. “If I accidentally kicked him, it’s because they grabbed hold of my legs. But you can watch it from every angle, and I didn’t.”

Azalea said she was held at the Utah County jail Tuesday night until friends came to bail her out shortly after midnight. She arrived home around 1 a.m., she said, and another friend soon took her to an urgent-care clinic.

There, she underwent a CT scan, she said, which showed that she had not broken her jaw when her face hit the floor, as she had feared. She said she did suffer a concussion, and bruises on her jaw, knee and shoulder. She bore a small red blemish on her chin Wednesday.

The video, distributed by the activist group Party for Socialism and Liberation Salt Lake City, shows a deputy throwing her down and then placing a hand on her neck. Then her arms were pulled behind her and deputies put her in handcuffs.

“My jaw hurts,” she tells the deputies in the video. “You literally threw my face on the f---ing ground.”

Azalea was charged with three misdemeanors, the sheriff’s office said in its statement. Azalea said Wednesday that Caroline Gleich, the endurance athlete and former U.S. Senate candidate, has helped her find a lawyer.

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Wednesday’s rally had been previously scheduled to raise awareness for a variety of environmental issues, including the plight of the Great Salt Lake and the shrinking of the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments. After Azalea’s arrest Tuesday, organizers expanded the rally to cover what they consider to be police violence.

The rally included speeches from representatives of the Sierra Club, the Box Elder Accountability Referendum and other groups, a folk trio performing Buffalo Springfield’s classic protest song “For What It’s Worth,” and an Indigenous circle dance where dozens paraded around a large cloth puppet of a bear.

The protesters chanted “Justice for Aspen,” and demanded disciplinary action for the deputy seen throwing her to the ground.

State Sen. Nate Blouin, D-Millcreek, who also attended the rally, said the movement against data centers “has been in the public consciousness already,” but that the viral video of Azalea’s arrest “brings it home for a lot of people.”

“These are decisions that are getting made right now, and if you try to get in their way, you might end up slammed onto the ground and injured, having to go to jail and go to the hospital,” Blouin told The Salt Lake Tribune.

Azalea said the reaction to her arrest, and the viral video, has been “overwhelmingly in support of me.” She added that she hoped her arrest will “bring attention to police brutality and violence towards women. … they’re using their violence to hide what they’re doing, the level of intensity of the destruction of our environment.”