Police Brutality 10am Anoka MN-->Father arrested and attacked by Coon Rapids Police Department on Fathers Day for exercising his 1st Amendment rights walking in front of Menards on Main St and Hwy 10.  The Father dressed up in a Captain America outfit with a grocery bag over his head and a sign at the top of a pole about 6 feet tall. 

The father asked the police officers when they approached if he was being detained for which they just proceeded to tackle the Father from behind.  The sign the father was carrying said, "Happy F*%$ing FatherLess Day".  On the other side of the sign it said, "Think Your Family is Safe?  WAKE UP People".  The bag over the Fathers face had two eye holes and a frown face with tears running down it's cheeks.  On the faces forehead was written the word "HELP" and on the back of the bag it read, "911 We Are Under Attack".

The Father wore the bag on his head to protect the identiy of his children just in case they may have seen him and when asked where he was going the Father said he was on his way to the Anoka County courthouse.  He said, he would have driven there but his temporay liscense doesn't allow him to drive on Sunday's.  The Father was arrested for Disorderly Conduct and Obstructing Legal Process for which he plans to challenge. 

The Father was in complete compliance with the police officer's demands the whole time they were arrresting him.  The officer threatened the father that he would be tasered twice and kept accusing the father of resisting arrest even though the Father was not resisting.  The police officer continued to twist on the Father's arm almost to the point of dislocation as the Father kept calming telling the officers to just not hurt him and that he was compling with the officers demands as they kept sayin he wasn't in an attempt for them to twist the situation.  

After the Father was cuffed he then sat in the police car for about an hour with the windows up when it was 90 degrees and 100% humidity.  Another witness showed up at the scence wanting to report the police officers behaviors and the police officer kept accusing the Father of setting them up.  The Father was scared by the brutality as the father was hit so hard from behind that the sign broke and when asked if he still had any pain from the incident, he said, his wrists from the cuffs, his shoulder is still kind sore but said he still had a head ache because the officer clocked him in the back of the head with maybe a night stick when he was being tackled. 

If anyone witness the incident please let me know as we need to hold these officers accountable.

-HD