The woman shown on video being shoved to the ground by a Denver police officer says the officer hit her four times with his baton in an incident she describes as unprovoked.

CodePink protester Alicia Forrest, 24, was released on $500 bail Tuesday night and has a court date for late September, she said Wednesday at an antiwar protest march through the middle of Denver.

"I'm a little sore," she said, "but I'll make it."

Forrest is a former fashion designer from Los Angeles.

She and others were asking officers why they were arresting another protester Tuesday afternoon outside Civic Center when the officer poked her twice with his baton. He then pushed her with the long side of the stick once, Forrest said, before yelling, "Back up, b----" and shoving her hard to the ground.

The final shove was captured by a Rocky videographer.

The video, which also showed Forrest minutes later being dragged away and arrested while talking to reporters, stirred controversy when it was posted to the Internet.

It cuts out between Forrest's landing on the ground and her arrest — a time during which Forrest said, "I laid on the ground for a while," before getting up and starting to answer reporters' questions.

"I was taking photos, (and) he kept hitting me with his baton," she said. "I was so shocked that he did that."

Forrest and CodePink said the officer was reassigned and no longer can interact with demonstrators, but that could not be immediately confirmed Wednesday.

Forrest was in jail about five hours, then spent another two hours talking with the Denver Police Department's Internal Affairs Division, she said.

"So many people were calling them after they saw the video," Forrest said, adding that this was the lone incident she had had with police during the convention.

"All of the police throughout this week have been pretty nice, and pretty cooperative," she said.

The city's independent monitor has said the incident should be reviewed based on the image caught on tape.

Staff writer Ryan Sabalow contributed to this report.