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While resisting arrest, a suspect bites a police officer's penis hard enough to draw blood and require treatment at a hospital

This raises so many questions... Like, how can a person lying on the ground bite somebody in the penis, yet multiple times? What were they doing to him?

Restraining someone who does not want to be restrained requires either beating them until they don't resist anymore or using human mass to prevent their movement. Ideally this involves multiple people on each limb and restraining their trunk. If you have less people you may need to be leaning on someone in an attempt to prevent their moving. Since this happens very quickly in an uncontrolled situation and the person being restrained will use any freedom of movement available to them it's easy to miss that you've left open a degree of freedom. People being restrained will generally do what they can - that means biting, spitting - if a cop is kneeling on you and your limbs are restrained but your head isn't.....

Restraining someone who does not want to be restrained requires either beating them until they don't resist anymore or using human mass to prevent their movement.

Yes, but. Human body is a collection of parts which can only move in certain ways. How much leeway do you have in this depends on how much you are willing to hurt yourself but even that has limits since you can only power your muscles in certain ways and they are connected at certain points. The cops of course also are limited by the ways of restraint that are allowed by their manuals, which presumably are selected to cause minimum possible damage to the arrestee (not sure if that's true but that's the premise).

Specifically, if you have somebody in the prone position, cuffed, and are turning them over, you're not doing it by going around their head, and their head has pretty limited range relative to their torso, he's not a goose or a snake after all. And unless it was a really short cop, the guy would have to cover quite some distance to get to the cop's crotch - unless the cop was sitting on his head or kneeling next to it for some reason, while the guy was being turned over. Maybe they turned him over by the mid-section, and he bent up and then bit? Then it was a mistake, as somebody should have controlled the shoulders to prevent it, but maybe they didn't have enough people for that.

Spitting is much easier, you can spit quite far with little effort, but biting requires certain range.

I envisioned someone sitting on the side of his chest to try and immobilize him while they got more bodies involved to flip and cuff. If you slip toward the head instead of staying on the thoracic cavity....

On the other hand could have just been a mad scramble with people rolling around, ive seen that too.

The prosecutor's sentencing memorandum provides slightly more detail.

After Clay ignores the officers, he is tased and physically restrained. Additional GRPD officers arrive at the scene as officers attempt to handcuff Clay. Once Clay is in handcuffs, officers roll him onto his back. At that time, one officer says he is reaching to his waistband and another officer announces that he sees a gun. The officers attempt to recover the firearm while restraining Clay. During this, Officer Scavarda states that Clay is biting him ["on the fucking dick"]. Clay is struck in the face to stop him from biting officers.

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