ORMOND BEACH, Fla. (WFLA) — An Ormond Seashore police officer resigned after being accused of throwing a handcuffed girl to the bottom again in December.
In keeping with an arrest report, the incident started as a DUI crash investigation that shortly escalated.
A lady was taken to the Ormond Seashore Police Division for a breath take a look at when the officer administering the take a look at, former officer Jacob Cannon, 32, pulled the lady in the direction of him earlier than slamming her over a chair and right into a wall.
Newly launched surveillance video exhibits the incident, and the moments following as Cannon seems to carry the lady, who’s bleeding, by {the handcuffs}, and takes her to a holding cell.
A pool of blood may be seen on the ground the place the lady landed.
NBC affiliate WESH reported that Cannon instructed hearth division personnel who arrived to deal with the lady that she had stood up in an try to go away earlier than slipping and falling, hitting her head within the course of. In one other conflicting story, he stated she had tried to cost at him and had fallen.
The arrest report says that the lady was handled at a close-by hospital, receiving no less than seven stitches that may possible depart a everlasting scar.
The Ormond Seashore Police Chief instructed reporters that Cannon was a patrol officer who had been with the division just below two years.
The Ormond Seashore Police Division arrested Cannon on Jan. 31 and he’s dealing with felony battery costs.
