WINONA, Minn. – While police were arresting a man in a domestic dispute, a sympathetic buddy intervened and also was arrested. This happened about 12:40 a.m. Jailed were both Joel James Coleman III, 19, and Michael Palermo, also 19. The episode, according to the police report, had begun an hour earlier. A woman called 911 that a boyfriend had slammed her into a table and jammed her thumb. The man, police said, was gone when they arrived. An hour later the officers were called back to a renewed disturbance. The woman’s lips were swollen and bleeding, police said. Coleman was there. As he was being cuffed, Palermo objected that the arrest was unfair and tried to stop the officers. Coleman grabbed one officer by a hand, according to the police report. A second officer pulled him off. He grabbed a railing and wouldn’t let go until finally wrenched off.

Coleman. Charged with domestic assault.

Palermo. Charged with obstructing police.