The woman arrested in the Arrecife neighborhood of San Francisco Javier was a passenger in a vehicle whose driver tested positive for alcohol and, according to the Police, was arrested after "insulting the officers" and giving "several slaps on the arms" to one of them, who was trying to prevent her from "leaving the scene".
The police report, which La Voz has had access to, confirms that initially the officers had no intention of arresting the woman, who however ended up being pushed by a police officer, who ended up subduing her on the ground. However, it is stated that at the time of her arrest, she "spit" in the face and "scratched" the arms of an officer.
The intervention took place at around 4:00 p.m. last Sunday and began after the police officers observed a vehicle that was circulating "abnormally, zigzagging and making strange maneuvers" "on Isabel La Católica Street".
After that, according to the police report, the officers proceeded "to stop him, managing to stop the car, which was traveling in the opposite direction", on Cardenal Cisneros Street, which is where neighbors recorded the woman's arrest. Before that, the officers state that they "invited the passengers to get out of the vehicle", in which five people were traveling, and proceeded to perform the alcohol test on the driver, "since he had obvious symptoms of having consumed alcohol". In it, it is pointed out that it yielded a result of "0.90 milligrams/liter of exhaled air".
Once the test was completed, the police officers assure that the vehicle's co-driver "began to get very aggressive", "insulting the officers with phrases such as 'badly born, gonorrhea, old men, sons of bitches'". In the report, it is stated that the woman "began to flee the scene", whereupon an officer "stood in her way", beginning to "give him several slaps on the arms".
"Given that the woman attacks the officer, it is for this reason that the arrest of this person is carried out, beginning at that moment to spit in his face and scratch him on the arms, not without first informing him in situ and in an understandable way of the reason for this and of the rights that assist him as such," the police officers maintain.
Likewise, it is pointed out that, during the arrest, another officer "had to hold one of the passengers of the vehicle" and that, as a consequence of this, the glasses that the police officer was wearing were "totally fractured and unusable".
After that, it is indicated that support was requested from the National Police, whose officers transferred the detainee to the Valterra health center, where she was treated in the Emergency Room.
