WINONA, Minn. – Police finally got Anthony Whiteside Jr, 25, behind, but it it hardly went smoothly. Police said Whiteside twice became mean and physical with officers, backed off only when they resorted to threatening him with a taser, and had to be strapped into a resistance chair for booking. This all began when police took a 911 call about a domestic disturbance in the 400 block of Hamilton Street.

> A woman told officers that an argument with her live-in boyfriend escalated and he stormed off, then came back. He smashed a beer bottle, threw her in a bed, hit her face, forced her to the floor, and kicked her in ghe face, she said. Several children witnessed all this, she said. On the way out thus second time, he smashed a television, she said. She followed him to the door to lock it, and, she said, he punched her in the face. Although bruised and swollen, the woman declined medical attention, police said.

> Police found Whiteside 10 blocks away at a Franklin Street address. Police gave this account: Whiteside denied having been at the Hamilton address or even knowing the battered woman. Then he admitted knowing her but denied any violence. After he was arrested and on his way out, Whiteside slipped on ice and grabbed a knee of one officer going down. Another officer untangled them, and, as Whiteside became ore belligerent, the officer unholstered his taser but didn’t fire. Somehow they got Whiteside into the squad car.

> At he jailhouse, police said, Whiteside tried to get out of the cuffs. Then, according officers, this happened: Whiteside on an officer’s foot and wouldn’t get off. Both, again, tumbled to the ground. In the tumult, one of the officer’s knees struck Whiteside in the face, at which point Whiteside accused the officer of hitting him in the face and saying next time he would “blow up” the officer’s knee, whatever that meant. Whiteside continued resisting the officers, who, once inside the building, strapped inti resistance chair. At 10:47 p.m. finally he was booked.

None of the officers felt a need for medical attentin for their bruises.

Whiteside. Police said he was “very intoxicated” the whole time. There were piles of beer cans in the trash at the Hamilton address, they said.

Resistance chair. Standard equipment in a back closet at any jail for use when needed.

Tentative charges

> Two counts of domestic assault.

> Obstructing the legal process.