FLORISSANT, Mo. – An alarming police officer assault case has one family reliving their past encounter with the same officer.

FOX 2 News obtained police bodycam video of that encounter, which has only led to charges against the citizen.

The video shows a police officer responding to a 2021 noise disturbance call in Florissant and then slamming one of the suspects against his vehicle.

The impacted family is finally ready to talk about it.

“Why did it have to get so physical so fast?” Jacqueline Canter said.

It’s still too traumatic for Cameron Canter to talk about it. His wife, Jacqueline, said they want accountability.

“You don’t expect something like that to happen to your family,” she said.

They’ve come forward hearing the same officer who Cameron encountered in 2021 was charged with a different assault later.

The second incident was after an October 2024 crash on Interstate 64 in Chesterfield Valley. The St. Louis County Prosecutor’s Office says in court filings that Preston Caruso, who was off duty at the time, was recorded by the other driver as saying, “If you blame it on me, I’m going to [expletive] you up.”

Court records indicate Caruso also said, “I will murder you right here on the side of the road,” with the prosecution alleging that you can hear sounds of Caruso hitting the other driver.

“It should never have happened a second time,” Jacqueline Canter said, adding that she didn’t know where her husband was for 24 hours.

In the 2021 bodycam footage, Officer Caruso pulls up to a noise disturbance complaint. He asks for identification of two men who’d pulled into the driveway. You can see Canter with a cigarette in hand, questioning why he should show ID because he has a loud hemi engine.

Things take a violent turn as Caruso tells the two men, “I need two IDs. I need two IDs. Turn around; put your hands behind your back!”

But instead of cuffing him, the officer grabs Canter’s wrist and whips his body around, slamming it into the truck.

“This video made me gasp, when I first saw it,” attorney Mark Pedroli said.

Pedroli said the department responded that it took no discipline against the officer, and in the use of force report, department staff marked “Yes” that the “Officers’ actions comply with department policy.”

“If you’re not being disciplined, that means you’re not being supervised,” Pedroli said.

In the bodycam video, you can hear officer Caruso tell a supervisor, “I mean, he hit his head on the way down, but it is what it is.”

Jacqueline added that she didn’t know where her husband was for 24 hours.

On the bodycam video you can hear Cameron ask an officer, “Can you give me a second?” The officer responded, “For what?” Cameron continued, “So I can call my wife?” The officer answered, “No phone calls right now.”

“I had to call around to find him and then finally a nurse at one of the hospitals I called told me he was there,” Jacqueline said.

Though there was no discipline against the officer from this incident, Cameron Canter stands charged with assault and disturbing the peace in Florissant Municipal Court.

We called and personally visited Florissant Police Department to get answers about officer Caruso and their discipline decisions. A spokesman said they had to say no comment because of pending litigation.

Police did confirm that Caruso resigned on the day he was charged in the Chesterfield assault and is no longer a Florissant police officer.

We also reached out to Caruso’s attorneys to try to get his side of the story. Both his civil attorney in the use of force case and his criminal attorney in the criminal case responded, “no comment.”