COLLEGEDALE, Tenn. – A Tennessee school cleaning lady faces criminal charges after police mistook her for a burglar and shot her with a Taser as she fled the school.

The incident sparked questions about the use of excessive force by local police, which prompted the two officers involved to detail their actions in an affidavit, the Chattanooga Times Free Press reports.

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The four-page document, however, omits pertinent details about Jan. 11 incident some believe is critical to determining whether the officers acted within their authority.

Sgt. Jamie Heath and Officer Brian Desmond noticed a door propped open at Ooltewah Middle School around 8:20 p.m. and took it upon themselves to investigate, according to the report authored by Heath.

The officers drew their weapons and were sweeping the school when they noticed cleaning supplies outside of a restroom, though they were unsure if the cleaning staff was on site, the report states.

When the officers were checking a room, a woman in a blue t-shirt with the letters “ABM” entered the room and was not carrying anything, My Fox 8 reports.

“She obviously noticed us, as she looked directly at us, appearing to be nervous and somewhat reserved,” Heath wrote.

The officers asked the woman to identify herself, but she only replied “no,” and didn’t seem to understand English. The woman slowly moved toward the door before bolting from the room, down a hallway, through the school cafeteria, down a flight of stairs, and into the parking lot. Heath alleges officers shouted “alto” for the woman to stop.

Alto means both “stop” and “tall” in Spanish.

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The officers allegedly warned the woman if she did not stop they would shoot her with a Taser, and when she didn’t they followed through – shooting the woman from behind on a run, WHIO reports.

“The woman, who gave several different names to officers and seemed to have trouble understanding both Spanish and English, was an employee of the cleaning company ABM, which regularly works in the school, ABM managers told police that night,” the Times Free Press reports.

“The woman was charged with evading arrest and booked into jail under the name Juana Raymundo, 36. She was released on a $750 bond and is due in Collegedale Municipal Court on March 2.”

Nashville immigration and civil rights attorney Andrew Free pointed out that the officers’ report lacked many important details, such as whether the officers were in uniform, whether they arrived in marked police cars, and why they didn’t holster their weapons once they realized the woman wasn’t a threat.

“This is a pretty defensively written report,” he said. “I wonder if this is the same attention to detail that the officer gives every affidavit of complaint. And if so, why wasn’t there more attention to detail noting whether they identified themselves as they were sweeping the building?”

Other legal experts posed similar questions.

“This was just an open door,” police science professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice told the Times Free Press. “There wasn’t a report of burglary; there was a report of an open door. The officers didn’t witness any extreme acts of vandalism or see that the computers were ripped out – there has to be some correlation between what they witnessed and the response.”

The police department’s use-of-force policy permits officers to take action when people are “unlawfully” fleeing, or to make an arrest for a felony or misdemeanor, according to the news site.

Assistant police chief James Hardeman said no complaints have been filed in the case.

Jon Shane, Haberfield’s colleague and former New Jersey police captain, believes the officers acted within their authority.

“It sounds like a clear case of reasonable force,” he said. “The officers must be right about the law when using force, but they can be mistaken about the facts. In this instance, the law would allow officers to use a Taser to subdue a fleeing burglar, but the fact is that the woman was not a burglar.”

Some local residents, on the other hand, think Raymundo, who is in the country legally from Guatemala, had good reason to flee.

“Well if I couldn’t understand the majority of what (the officers) were saying and I had guns pointed at me, I’d be pretty scared too,” Christy Wells-Rece told WRCB. “I can’t imagine a situation under which it could be any more clear what she was there for.”

“With everything you see on the News and things happening around the country, who knows what was running through her mind,” said Ugene Colon. “There seems to be a systematic disconnect between the community and the police especially and I hate to say this …if you are a Hispanic or a minority and in this lady’s case that was a perfect example of there not being the communication necessary. It’s obvious to me that the lady was not a criminal.”