Yet another disturbing video of a contentious police encounter during an arrest shows a woman visiting a friend at The Retreat Apartments, in Orange County, being asked to leave the property.

From there, things quickly spiraled out of control.

We spoke with both sides and an independent expert wondering if this situation could have been handled another way.

Police tactics across the country are under scrutiny. In this case, the Orange County Sheriff's office stands by its deputies' actions.

But with cellphone videos popping up of encounters with law enforcement, including this one, you have the opportunity to decide if the amount of force used was warranted.

In the video, a 21-year-old college student is straddled by an off-duty Orange County deputy after an encounter at The Retreat Apartments.

The woman, Deidra Reid, was arrested after an Orange County Sheriff's Office report said she refused to leave the apartment's clubhouse after being given a lawful command to do so. She was charged with trespassing and resisting an officer with violence.

"It could have been avoided, and it didn't need to escalate this far," said Samantha Bennett, who lives in the apartment complex.

Bennett said Reid was there as her guest, and should not have been arrested for trespassing in the first place. Reid was asked for her ID, and when she could not produce it, she was told to leave by an off-duty deputy employed by The Retreat, who called a second deputy for backup.

"All she wanted to do was have the police officer walk with her to her car to get her ID, but he wouldn't let her," Bennett said.

The video shows Reid continuing to resist the deputies' efforts to arrest her, saying she wanted to get her ID.

Then, the takedown happens off camera. Orange County Sheriff's Office spokesperson Lourdes Clayton said what happened next is because the woman did not comply.

"This could have been handled very simply — this person being co-operative, probably a simple trespass," Clayton explained. "However, based on how she escalated the situation, the deputies did what they had to do."

An arrest like this one may not have previously made the news, but with the advent of cellphone cameras, more and more moments like this are being captured on video — moments which have fueled a debate about excessive force being used during minor infractions.

Reid is placed in handcuffs and, for more than six minutes, a deputy sits on her back and twists her arm into what the Orange County Sheriff's Office calls a "pain compliance hold."

"From a person looking at it, it may look uncomfortable — you see her arm is way up in the air — all he is doing at that point is trying to achieve compliance," Clayton said.

We showed James Copenhaver, a private investigator and former Orange County sheriff's deputy with decades of experience, video of the arrest, captured on multiple cellphones, and asked his opinion. He said the deputy sitting on the girl's back was a problem.

"She's not even verbal at this point. She's not offering any resistance," said Copenhaver. "She's pretty much lying prone to the ground."

Copenhaver said the woman was handcuffed and could have easily been allowed to sit up, or even led to a patrol car already on scene. He said the woman's safety seems to be the growing crowd's concern, and believes there may have been a better way to handle the situation.

"That's a girl. That's my friend," a voice on the camera shouts at the deputies. "Stop bending her arm."

"It's not 'Let her go.' It's not 'She didn't do anything wrong.' Their main concern is this female's arm that is sort of jacked up in a chicken wing behind her," Copenhaver noted. "So, could that have diffused the situation by sitting her up and making her a little more comfortable? She's already arrested. I just think that would have diffused the insightful words from these kids."

Clayton maintained the deputies followed procedure.

"I don't know either one of these deputies, but I can tell you after reviewing this multiple times, it absolutely, positively does not look like race-involved, in this case," Copenhaver said. Reid is black, and the deputies were both white.

"Clearly she was told multiple times to leave," Copenhaver added. "If you are told by a cop you need to leave, you need to leave."

A spokesperson for the Sheriff's Office said after any use of force, the incident is reviewed, and this one was no different.

When we attempted to speak with Reid, she told us she was advised by her attorney not to speak.