WINONA Minn. – Police had their hands full in arresting Bryan John Williams, 28. It took five officers to suppress and cuff him at a Main Street apartment. Then, bleeding from his mouth and nose sfter banging his head repeatedly into a wall, Williams was rushed to the hospital. There he resisted laying on a cot to be examined. He was intoxicated, police said. Finally police got him to jail about 7 a.m. — three hours after being called to the Main Street apartment for a fight involving three drunk men, a juvenile and a woman. All but Williams and the woman had left by the time officers arrived.
Williams. Booking charges: Obstructing a legal process and assaulting an officer.
Blow by blow
This sequence is drawn from police reports: About 4 o’clock in the morning a woman sounded an emergency medical alarm in her bathroom at 104 Main Sytreet. She had locked herself inside to escape a belligerent guest. The guest — a friend, she called him – had been trying to pick a fight with three others, all of whom had been drinking heavily. The belligerence intensified. Without success, he woman tried to separate them and was hit in the head. Fearful for her own safety, she fled to bathroom. Only the woman and Williams were still there when police arrived. Williams, said police, was not pleased at their presence. They said he head-butted one officer and kicked another twice. When officers finally suppressed him against a wall nnd cuffed him, he kept banging his head into the wall, cracking the wall with blood pouring from his mouth and nose. He spit at the officers, who put a spit hood
over his head. A deputy sheriff took him to the hospital emergency room, where he was no less belligerent. None of the officers was seriously hurt. About 7 a.m. Williams was booked at the jail. The booking charges: Obstructing a legal process and assaulting an officer.