“I’m getting a little upset with her, but … I feel like I’ve been pretty nice,” Green answered.Īnother unidentified person then contacted Green to tell him that the first sergeant was on his way, but unhappy with the situation: “He asked, like, why does he even need to go?” she said. “We were actually monitoring via the CCTV, and it looked like you were berating the s*** out of her,” the unidentified man said. Green told the man he was writing up Gonzalez for expired registration “because she’s being rude to me,” according to the body camera footage.
He began filling out her ticket while the military police waited for an answer from the first sergeant.Īn unidentified person called Green and told him the first sergeant agreed the situation seemed like a civil matter. The airman asked whether Gonzalez had tried calling her ex-husband, to which she appeared to respond that her former spouse hadn’t answered. “We’re going to get ahold of your husband’s first sergeant,” he told Gonzalez. court system, then turned back to Gonzalez and again asked for a driver’s license. Green spoke into his radio and asked for DD Form 1805, which refers state traffic law violations on base to the U.S.
“I’m actually doing a lot of homework, trying to figure it out and trying to help you.” When the airman scanned the card, the system showed her base access had expired. The situation began when Gonzalez arrived at the base’s gate and showed an identification card to an airman (identified as GOLF-1 in the report) working at the Airbase Road entrance. Floyd, who is Black, died after Derek Chauvin, a white Minneapolis police officer, knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes. That training, as well as the run-in itself, came amid a fierce national debate over excessive force in policing sparked by George Floyd’s death last year.
Green was up to date on his use-of-force and expandable baton training at the time of the incident, most recently finishing the annual course on Dec. Criteria include the severity of someone’s crime, whether they pose an imminent threat to the officer and others, and whether they are actively resisting or trying to evade apprehension - as Gonzalez was that day. Supreme Court case that created a standard for judging whether military police have acted properly when using force.
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