Florida inmate describes her beating.

HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, FL -- Another case of inmate abuse is being exposed at the Orient Road Jail in Hillsborough County, Florida. A newly released video shows a detention deputy striking an inmate in a jail holding area on November 11, 2006. The video shows the deputy pulling Marcella Pourmoghani-Esfahani out of a chair by the hair and then striking her repeatedly as Pourmoghani-Esfahani is curled into a ball and clinging to the deputy's leg. Parts of the incident are obscured as other deputies walk into the frame. Several deputies help restrain Pourmoghani-Esfahani, cuffing her hands and feet, with her legs bent behind her. "The blood was pouring from my nose and mouth," Pourmoghani-Esfahani said at a news conference Monday night. "I could not breathe. I was dying." Attorney Virlyn Moore said his client suffered a seizure. Initially, he said, "her problem was ignored," until "finally, a nurse was called," and she was taken to a hospital. She was treated and returned to the jail, Moore said. Pourmoghani-Esfahani said the incident started after she was told to take her foot off a chair. The tape was released Monday by Moore who says he is filing a federal civil rights lawsuit against the deputy, the sheriff and Hillsborough County. Moore said this case along with the recent dumping of a paralyzed man out of his wheelchair by another detention deputy was part of a pattern of abuse at the Jail. "This is not an isolated incident, this wheelchair thing," Moore said. "They prey on the women and the disabled." Jail officials said Pourmoghani-Esfahani was uncooperative from the time she entered the jail and that the deputy took defensive measures because she feared Pourmoghani-Esfahani was going to bite her as she held her leg. This was not the first time Pourmoghani-Esfahani had gone through booking. According to county officials Pourmoghani-Esfahani has been arrested eight times since 1992. Charges ranged from DUI, battery, domestic violence, driving with a suspended license, battery on a law enforcement officer and resisting arrest with and without violence. Moore said the timing of his client's lawsuit is "entirely coincidental" with the national attention garnered by the incident involving Sterner. He said the suit was filed 15 months after the incident because it took that long to go through the legal process.