US woman arrested after doorbell video showed her harassing family

A person presses a Ring doorbell. A police probable cause statement indicated the woman appeared on a doorbell video waving a hammer and using profanities before she smashed a basement window and the door of a drying machine on Jan 5, 2022. — Dreamstime/TNS

ST. LOUIS: A St. Louis woman depicted in videos pounding on a family’s door, terrorising the family and hurling racial insults is facing charges.

But it took more than a year for charges to be filed because the original complaint languished before videos began receiving attention on social media.