WATERLOO -- A Waterloo woman said she has trouble lifting some of the babies at her day care business because her hands and arms were injured when she was being processed at the Black Hawk County jail in 2004.

?Joyce Wilder, 52, a former local radio announcer who is suing the county and a deputy over the wounds, told jurors she had to let four children go at her business and she can't pick up her own grandchild with her right arm.

?"I can't pick up a gallon of milk," Wilder said. "I don't have any strength in my right hand." She said her doctor told her the injury is permanent.

?As her testimony wrapped up Monday in court, Wilder said wasn't doing anything to warrant former Deputy Scott Ohrt's use of force -- his grabbing and twisting her wrists and arms.

The pain from the maneuver was "a nine or a 10 or higher," Wilder said. She said she felt a popping sensation in her right shoulder.

?"Everything on me was hurting because of the pressure he put on my hands," Wilder said. She was unable to be fingerprinted because of the pain, she said.?

Wilder said she wasn't angry or argumentative when she was taken to the jail Jan. 1, 2004, after finding her husband at the home of another woman and vandalizing the woman's car.?

She told jurors she was "disappointed and a little upset about what happened."?

The defense alleges Wilder became loud and argumentative when a female deputy searching her purse was unable to find money orders and a $20 bill Wilder said were inside.

?Wilder, who admitted to raising her voice but said she wasn't arguing, said Ohrt grabbed her right hand first, putting it into a wrist lock. When she complained it was her bad wrist, he then switched to her left.

?Ohrt stepped in a second time in a holding cell when the female deputy was removing Wilder's handcuffs. At that time, Wilder was allegedly moving around and becoming agitated, authorities said.

?Wilder, who said she was crying and in pain in the cell, said Ohrt put a hold on her left wrist and then grabbed her right hand from the female deputy, who was still trying to remove a cuff from it, pulling it behind her.

?The defense claims both times Ohrt used a "gooseneck" wrist lock that isn't designed to cause injury. They allege he only grabbed the left wrist in the holding cell.

?Wilder said she had a number of prior injuries. In 2002, she had surgery to her left shoulder, then in February 2003, she hurt her arm and finger in a fall at Expo School.

?Parts of the earlier injuries included a popping sound in her right shoulder and tenderness in her right hand that caused her to pull it away when a doctor examined it, according to medical records.

?Wilder also threatened to file a complaint against the Waterloo police officer who initially arrested her because he patted what turned out to be a wad of clothing at her waistline during a cursory search for weapons before taking her to jail.

?"I felt he improperly patted my butt," Wilder told jurors. She said a female officer should have been called for the pat down.

?The trial continues today at the Black Hawk County courthouse.

Contact Jeff Reinitz at (319) 291-1578 or jeff.reinitz@wcfcourier.com.