WINONA, Minn. – Police tased a man repeatedly as he resisted arrest following a report of domestic disturbance at a Far West End apartment. Once incapacitated with the taser, Terrell Desean Watkins, 34, was taken to the hospital, where a doctor cleared him medically to go to jail. He was booked for domestic assault meant to harm and for obstructing officers. The call began about 10:45 a.m. when a woman reported being assaulted 1-1/2 days earlier. The woman said she had been struck in the head with a with a broom stick, to which she responded by smacking the guy on the chin. He threw her to the floor, she said. The woman said the altercations escalated on and off verbally and physically . Her injuries, police observed, included a cut lip and scratches. She said the guy at one climatic moment threatened to kill her. To police Watkins denied any assault. “She’s making it up,” he said.
Police arrest report
Officers gave this account: Watkins was told he was under arrest. He walked away yelling. Told again he was under arrest, he kept walking from living room to the kitchen. Officers tried further to defuse the situation orally, but Watkins tensed and flexed his muscles. He and one officer fell into a closet. Watkins stood up. Another officer fired a stun gun. Watkins fell back and tried grabbing the gun. The officer fired several more times. This was in the 1700 block of West Wabasha Street. Once Watkins was taser-suppressed, he was cuffed, escorted outside, and driven to the hospital. One officer suffered minor injuries to a hand.
Watkins. In jail accused of harm-intended domestic assaultt and resisting arrest. Police say he attempted to grab an officer’s Taser gun.