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Teenage Girl Starts Attacking Police Officer

Teenage Girl Starts Attacking Police Officer

Teenage Girl Kicks and Punches Officer

 

Two witnesses came forth and backed the Mesa Police Officer about an account that a fifteen year old girl who was emotionally upset, kicked an officer and then punched the Officer before the officer finally returned the blows as she worked to handcuff the teen.

 

The teenage girl’s mother was the one to originally called the police for help. She told the police that the officer had punched her daughter without any provoking. A couple who recorded part of the incident aired the video to YouTube to show “police brutality”.

 

However, the 15 year old teenager admitted to the authorities that she had punched the officer and kicked her in the leg, and that she also refused the officer’s demands to stop. The hits by the officer only happened after the officer had grabbed the teenage girl’s wrist, trying to get her to stop.

 

Teenage Girl Admits She Provoked The Officer

 

At least the girl didn’t lie, she admitted in her statement that she was “resisting” the officer’s demands. She kicked the Officer because the Officer was “hurting her”. She even admitted to punching the officer as well as the officer punching her back two times. The teenage girl said that she sometimes gets upset due to her depression. When she gets mad she can’t control what she says or does, according to her.

 

In the Officer’s written statement, she reported that the girl had told her to “leave me alone” when she had tried to get the teenager to stop walking. The female officer said that the girl then kicked her in the thigh and that is when the officer grabbed her arm. The girl then punched the officer with her free arm in the temple, knocking off the officer’s glasses.

 

A Mesa Police Spokesman, Detective Steve Flores said that the incident will be investigated. The department wants to make sure that the officer’s level of force was justified. The officer did have a welt on her face from being punched by the teenage girl.

 

Source: https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/mesa/2014/12/10/mesa-officer-punch-15-year-old-report-abrk/20187069/

 

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Suspect Shot in Police Attempted Arrest

Suspect Shot in Police Attempted Arrest

Man Gets Injured As Police Attempt to Arrest Him

On Saturday May 3,2014 a man was injured as he was fleeing from officers near the Children’s Hospital on 20th street and Thomas Road.

Sgt. Steve Martos says that they had received a trespassing call at the Phoenix Police station around 3 in the morning. The caller said that the individual had a bottle in hand and was swearing at the security trying to provoke them. He was holding the bottle in a “threatening manner”.

The security officers had asked the subject to leave three times but each time he kept coming back to the property. The officers arrived to the scene and the man fled. He was chased by the police officers to the area of 20th and Virginia streets.

Sgt. Martos said that the subject then bent to the ground and made a movement towards his pants. As the man began to stand up one of the officers show the suspect in the leg for their safety. As the man stood up after he was shot, the man began to throw rocks at the officers. He then ran away again.

Some later Officers that arrived to the scene found the man near Yale and 17th Street. He did not go easily, he resisted the new officers as well. The fight required more officers to respond to the scene. Luckily the Officers got control of the situation and took the man into custody.

He was first transported to the local hospital for his gunshot wound. Sgt. Martos said that the officers that received minor injuries during the struggle did not require treatment. Sgt. Martos said that when the man was well enough to be released from the hospital, he was booked into jail.

Charges for the suspect who was Shot

aggravated assault on a police officer, resisting arrest, and trespassing.

Source: https://www.abc15.com/news/region-phoenix-metro/central-phoenix/suspect-injured-after-officer-involved-shooting-following-trespassing-throwing-rocks-at-pch-guards