According to a police report, the lieutenant’s son and a friend were in a downtown Sanford bar Dec. 4 when they got into a fight with other customers. The officer’s son, his friend and the people they were fighting wound up on the sidewalk out front.
The lieutenant’s son told police that after he was jumped and hit in the head, he punched someone.
That someone was Sherman Ware, a homeless man.
And on the video, Ware appears to be trying to break up a fight when the officer’s son walks up behind him, draws back his arm and unloads a punch to the back of Ware’s head.
It caused Ware to hit his head against a nearby light pole and fall to the ground. He was taken to a hospital.
The video also shows the officer’s son then stepping up onto the sidewalk and punching someone else.
One of the responding officers said he did not arrest the lieutenant’s son because Ware gave no sworn written statement and the lieutenant’s son and his friend, Eric Lassady, gave conflicting accounts.
Sanford Police Capt. David Del Rosso said Wednesday that a few days after the fight, his office asked the State Attorney’s Office in Sanford to review the case and decide whether to file an aggravated battery charge against the lieutenant’s son.
“The fact that he’s related to one of the officers here has no bearing on whether he was arrested or not,” said Del Rosso. “We don’t want to prosecute a kid before we find out all the facts.”ORIGINAL SOURCE
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