New video of the arrest of an
intoxicated Fox News anchor shows newsman Gregg Jarrett being violently thrown
around by a Minnesota airport policeman.
The video, made available to
Gawker by the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport’s police department,
shows Jarrett being pushed into a wall like a rag doll in a detention cell by a
cop named Mark Dorsey, who then slams the journalist’s head down on to the
cell’s bench for added measure.
The news anchor was arrested on
May 21 after an airport bartender reported his behaviour after one drink made
him seem “intoxicated.”
According to the police report,
Dorsey approached Jarrett and found him uncooperative and the officer wrote he
“was concerned for the welfare” of the anchor.
Jarrett was then placed in a
holding cell until paramedics arrived.
The police report then differs
with Gawker’s reporting on what happened next after firefighters arrived. In
the report, Dorsey says that Jarrett twice yelled “F–k you” at him and appeared
agitated. Dorsey then says he attempted to cuff the newsman and he resisted.
However, Gawker says that the
anchor could not be heard using those words at the policeman in the hour-long
version of the video and it is not clear if the journalist grabbed the cop’s
arm either, as Dorsey writes in his report.
“Jarrett then grabbed my left
arm and I broke his grip. I then used an arm bar on his right arm to bring him
to the wall,” Dorsey wrote in his report. “Once against the wall, Jarrett
continued to struggle and started to spin to break my grip. I then spun with
Jarrett and released my grip on his right arm and grabbed his left arm. Using
an arm bar on his left arm, I brought Jarrett down to the bench and told
Jarrett to stop resisting several times. I got one arm cuffed and told Jarrett
to stop resisting and bring his other arm back.”
