Arroyo was charged with failure to obey a lawful order and resisting arrest without violence for a weird traffic incident in Miami.
I find the last charge a bit suspect seeing that Arroyo’s face look like Tiger’s wife took a nine iron to it, but here is what the police claim to happened:
A Coral Gables Police Department detective operating an unmarked unit observed a vehicle impeding the flow of traffic. After monitoring this driver for several blocks, the CGPD detective became concerned with the driver’s behavior and the safety of the public. He then requested that a marked police unit respond to the area to conduct a traffic stop.
“A uniformed marked police motorcyclist made numerous attempts to stop the subject vehicle with negative results. Eventually, the driver did pull over but continued to disobey the lawful order to exit his vehicle. Additional units were requested due to the unwillingness of the driver to comply with the officer’s lawful orders. The driver eventually exited the vehicle. While being taken into police custody, the driver attempted to resist being handcuffed.”
According to the report, while in custody, Arroyo, “continued to be confrontational and challenging. Arroyo was posing a threat to both himself and the officers during the traffic stop.”
Whereas Arroyo may not have been violent it appears the Coral Gables police had no issues being violent on his face.
Maybe the reason he was charged with “resisting arrest without violence” is because if they said “with violence” someone might poke around and see these cops went Rodney King on Arroyo. On the flip side maybe Arroyo did something to provoke the beatdown.
I am real curious to see what Arroyo has to say about this.
I am not a detective, but I did stay at a “W” a couple of weeks ago and I think something is wrong here. I have watched enough episodes of “Cops” to know that sometimes police think they need 3326345 cops to subdue one person.
Waiting on more facts, but the detective hat is out.
Thanks to Jocks and Stiletto Jill who were the first to report the story.
