Good Cop: IMPD officer hurt during staged fight [Video]
A Metro police officer is on desk duty after being injured while breaking up a staged fight.
"First, it was verbal, then it became physical and the officer doing his duty went to intervene," said FOP President Sgt. William Owensby.
The officer had been asked to teach a lesson on dealing with the police.
It was a staged fight, one to gauge how a police officer would react. The problem, the police department did not stage the fight, they say a minister from the Mt. Vernon Community Missionary Baptist Church did.
"The minister, facilitating the event, jumped in between them and said, 'Don't shoot! This is staged. This has been staged'," said Sgt. Owensby.
Quote from the article:
The officer was invited to give a presentation to a church group at Municipal Gardens. Sometime during his talk, two men started to argue in the back of the room. The officer tried to break it up and was thrown to the ground.
Source: Good Cop: IMPD officer hurt during staged fight [Video]
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