Click here to watch surveillance video of Robert Wagner's 2011 arrest.

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Jackie Dolinsky's police career hinged on three kicks.

Security camera footage from May 29, 2011, showed the Omaha police officer's right foot kicking Robert Wagner three times as she and other officers struggled to arrest him outside Creighton University Medical Center.

Were Dolinsky's kicks a form of police brutality and an excessive amount of force? Or were they an appropriate police technique used against a combative suspect?

Video of Wagner's arrest inflamed community-police tensions in parts of Omaha.

It also became critical evidence this spring as Dolinsky waged a closed-door battle for reinstatement after then-Police Chief Alex Hayes dismissed her and Officer Aaron Pennington for their actions that night.

A special arbitrator, Sharon K. Imes, overturned Dolinsky's termination after weighing the video, depositions from police and expert witnesses, and evidence from the internal police investigation.

The arbitration case for Pennington, who is seen in the video punching, kicking and stomping Wagner, is pending.