A PETITE teenager who tackled five police officers, wrecked a police station floor and flooded a jail cell says she's not such a bad girl.
Taiya Danhiez, 18, launched her 167cm, 56kg frame into a frenzied rampage after Australia Day celebrations turned sour.
Police say Danhiez was fighting with another girl in a park when they intervened.
For their trouble, she kicked them in groins, shins, stomachs and legs.
Danhiez, of Wodonga, said she didn't realise police officers were dragging her off the other girl in Albury's Noreuil Park.
She said she became angry when her bikini top slipped and she was stopped from putting it back on.
"How's a girl supposed to knock over five police officers?" she asked yesterday from Queensland, where she has been getting away from the controversy.
But the fact is, she did.
"I didn't punch anyone on purpose . . . it was just a reaction," she said. And Danhiez claimed she "wasn't even drunk" and had had only four mixed spirits.
She said the only other time she'd been in trouble was when she was 10 and was warned for not wearing a helmet while riding her bike.
Danhiez says she was the victim in the park incident.
She claims 15 young women punched and spat on her before she was arrested and that police saw the assault. But it was her they "tackled, kicked, capsicum sprayed and cuffed".
"I was helping an old friend who was having an asthma attack when these Aboriginal girls came up yelling abuse and throwing punches," Danhiez said.
"The punches hit me in the legs and chest . . . when I was talking to the police, a girl spat in my face. The police did nothing, so I chased and punched the girl."
She claims the five police officers then "beat the crap" out of her.
"Five cops threw me to the ground, kicked me in the ribs, knelt on my back, sprayed me and handcuffed me," Danhiez said.
"I was in the back (of the police van) when one of the cops said, 'You sure you're not a coon too?'," Danhiez said. "I got so mad I spat on the glass that divides the paddy wagon."
She admitted she "got mad" when locked in a glass-fronted cell. Ambulance officers delivered a cold pack for her eyes which were still smarting from the capsicum spray, she said.
"I bit open the cold pack and smeared it all over the glass so they couldn't see me," Danhiez said.
She denies tearing up floor covering in the cell, but admits that in another cell she threw wet toilet paper at a surveillance camera and tried to flood the room.
"I was wearing a bikini, so I took off my shorts and stuffed them in the sink," she said. "I turned the tap on, but hardly any water came out, so I decided to take it easy and not do it."
Danhiez says she regrets the incident.
"I made one mistake that could ruin my whole life and I just want to get back to TAFE," she said.
In Albury Court last week, Danhiez pleaded guilty to five counts of assault on police and three counts of malicious damage.
She said yesterday that she pleaded guilty because there was "no chance" a judge would take her word over that of five police.
She will be sentenced on June 30.
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