Instead of kicking a cop he should have applied for a job at IHOP.
A one-legged man is accused of kicking a police officer following an arrest at an Ohio bar.
A Columbus man is facing felony charges after police say he kicked an officer following an arrest at a Dublin bar.
It started shortly before 8:30 p.m. on May 5 at Urban Meyer’s Pint House in Dublin’s Bridge Park development. The bar manager called police to report there was a very intoxicated bar patron refusing to leave. When police arrived, the manager told officers that he had been asking the man to leave for over an hour and that he was willing to press charges for criminal trespassing.
Police identified that man as 35-year-old Patrick M. Callahan.
An officer approached Callahan and told him he needed to leave the establishment. In body camera video released by Dublin police, Callahan refused to leave the bar, insisting that he did nothing wrong. Callahan quickly points out he only has one leg.
After refusing to leave, Callahan tried to order water from the bar.
Callahan eventually got up from the bar and walked out to the sidewalk. Police asked him to identify himself. Callahan refused several times, leading police to place him in cuffs.
Based upon observations on Callahan’s apparent level of intoxication, police believed he was unable to safely care for himself, according to a police report.
As officers frisked Callahan, he became combative, yelling that officers touched his genitals. He then swears at officers several times, calling one officer a pedophile.
While in the back of a cruiser, Callahan said he wanted to spit on one of the officers, according to the police report. A spit guard was placed over Callahan’s head before arriving at the Franklin County Jail at Jackson Pike.
While at the jail, police say Callahan initially refused to get out of the cruiser. After he eventually got out, officers escorted him up the steps toward the jail’s entry door.
“As we walked up the steps towards the door, Mr. Callahan swiftly turned his body towards me, straightened his right leg, and then lunged his right knee into my body in a ‘knee strike’ motion which struck me in my left arm,” the officer noted in his report.