A Florida man who tussled with a cop trying to arrest him for disorderly conduct later said that he "really enjoyed resisting"[1] because it was like being on “Live PD,” a cable program that chronicles the mayhem police officers encounter on the night shift.
A patrolman was dispatched yesterday to a home in Sebastian, a city near Vero Beach, after a 911 caller reported that a man wielding a golf club was chasing a woman.
When an officer arrived on the scene, he encountered Rudolph Grant, 53, who smelled of booze and was screaming and cursing in front of the residence. After trying to walk away, Grant struggled as the cop sought to handcuff him, according to an arrest affidavit[2]. Grant, the cop noted, tried to pull away from him, "tensed his arms with an attempt to get away from me," and finally “made his body go limp.”
Due to his “erratic behavior,” Grant was subsequently placed in “mechanical restraints that were double-locked.”
Before being placed into a squad car, Grant told the arresting officer that he “really enjoyed resisting. It was like being on Live PD.” The A&E program, a “Cops” progeny, bills itself as a documentary series covering “DUI checkpoint stops to high-speed chases, bar fights to gang shootings, domestic disputes to drug busts.”
Grant, seen above, was charged with resisting arrest and disorderly conduct, both misdemeanors. He was released from the Indian River county jail after posting $1000 bond and is scheduled for a July 31 court hearing. Grant’s rap sheet includes a felony cocaine possession conviction.
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- ^ "really enjoyed resisting" (www.thesmokinggun.com)
- ^ arrest affidavit (www.thesmokinggun.com)