Charles’ arrest on 02.06.2015 in Chesterfield CountyBirthdate: 04.26.1995 (19 years old)Incident with Chesterfield Police and Officer WisemanFoxGate in FoxCroft neighborhoodVictim’s address: 5524 Foxvale Ct, Midlothian, VA

Charles dictated the account, mom typed it and Charles corrected errors

Officer Wiseman, Officer #2, Officer #3

I left Drew Martin’s home in Woodlake where I had been recording music there and his parents were home. On the way in and out, I saw Mr. Martin, Drew’s Dad and spoke with him.

I started driving home after midnight. When I’m recording music, I lose track of time. While driving down Fox Club Parkway the officer turned on his lights and I pulled over where the officer said I should and handed over license and registration right away. I was polite and cooperative but really nervous. I have anxiety and I get fidgety and really nervous. The officer said, “I can smell marijuana and alcohol, step out of the car” and so I did and I was breathalized and then immediately put in handcuffs behind my back. He cranked them very tight on my wrists.

Then Officer Wiseman pushed me against the car, got rough with me, put pressure points on my arms. I have thin arms and it hurt and I asked him to stop hurting me. There was no one around and I was really, really scared what this guy was going to do to me with no one around. I asked him to stop hurting me and why was he doing this to me and the officer got even more aggressive. I was even more scared and started to freak out. It was just me in handcuffs and the officer. I did squirm because he was hurting me and I was in pain and he said later I was resisting arrest. When someone puts pressure points on your arms you can’t help but squirm.

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Then he put his hand behind my neck and slammed my head against the car. I don’t know why he did that. I was not resisting arrest I had been cooperating although I was really, really scared. I was agitated but I was not threatening him.

I turned around and asked why he did that. Basically I looked over my shoulder. Later the officer said this is when I assaulted him but I just turned around to ask why he was doing all this to me. I didn’t know why I was pulled over or why he decided to hurt me and slam my head against the car. I had no alcohol in the car, no drugs on me or in my car because he had searched everywhere. I was not trying to hurt the officer, I know better, I’m in cuffs and the guy outweighs me by a lot. And he has a gun. So it’s not like I can hurt him. He started searching my pockets took my wallet, ID and phone and I asked, “Why are you doing that?” And he said he had probable cause because he smelled marijuana.

He unbuttoned my pants and then I got really nervous and I started to scream for help. He patted me down and touched genitals on the outside. And then when I was cuffed facing toward him, he shoved his hands down my pants. He was moving his hands around inside my pants and he felt my penis. He held it. So I was really upset now and said, “Stop dude get your hands out of my f-----pants”. Officer said, “I am allowed to do this and no one is going to believe because you are drunk”. I said, “I am not drunk. You are touching my dick and you can’t do that. Stop touching my dick.” He knew this was upsetting me. I was crying and I was telling him to stop grabbing my f---- dick. I did follow up with sarcastic comments like, “So do you do this often? Do you do that to everyone? You realized there was nothing down there and you stayed down there.” I was trying to make him feel guilty and bad for what he did and I was very confused. I was cuffed and defenseless and I was cooperating but then he took advantage of me and I was upset.

He kept saying, “No one is going to believe you because you are drunk.”

Two other officers showed up on the scene and Officer Wiseman stopped hurting me once they came on the scene. Two other officers arrived and he stopped. My pants were still unbuttoned. The other officer tells me he’s going to pull my waistband and shine a light in there. It was obviously the last thing he wanted to do. I was OK with that. He was not making it a game.

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Why did he have to shove his hands in there? I was trying to tell #2 police officer what had happened. Officer #2 said, “Shut up or I’m going to mace you”. I think he was tired of me trying to tell him what happened and asking for help. He just didn’t want to hear it.

Wiseman then searched my car when I was in the police car. Then I rode to the police station. I was read Miranda rights by officer #2 (?). When I was taken in I asked specifically if I could be kept away from the officer that abused me. Officer Wiseman said I tried to resist arrest, tried to hit him. How could I hit him with my arms behind my back? I am cooperating why are you doing this? When I was waiting to be breathalyzed by Officer Braxton, the breath tech, I asked to call my parents. I knew they’d be worried because I was supposed to have the car home. I blew a .01 and then Officer Wiseman got really mad. Someone at the station later said, “What he does doesn’t reflect the rest of the police force.” But it does.

He was smiling [officer wiseman] the whole time he was doing everything he did and he kept saying. “No one is going to believe you. I can do what I want. And taunting me with, You don’t like this do you?

The first time I heard anything about why he had pulled me over which he said was a rolling stop was when he was talking to the magistrate and after the officer found no evidence of drugs or alcohol. Officer Wiseman found a cigarette ash and tried to say that it was drugs trying to incriminate me. I don’t even smoke but friends of mine do and it’s not allowed in my car. He was so sure I was drunk and he was mad. He also said I was weaving and mumbling but that’s just a straight up lie.

They found nothing in my car and I blew a .01 at the police station. I was legitimately scared. The police are supposed to help you and they abused me. It’s not right. And this dude just fondled my junk on the side of the road at night with my hands cuffed behind my back. Resist? Tell me you wouldn’t be squirming if someone was handling your junk against your will?

Anne Moss Rogers, Charles’ MomWhen he called at 5am, he said all he said was that this police officer grabbed his penis. Over and over again. We were perplexed. We had a tough time

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getting any information about where he was and why he was in jail over the phone. He was extremely upset.

When my husband picked him up from jail, he was prepared to read him the riot act but he immediately changed his tune when he heard Charles tell his side of the story. And as soon I saw his face and listened to his account, I knew he was telling the truth.

I had heard enough at this point from other parents and I was already scared but this was way out of line from what I’d heard and was expecting. He was traumatized and still frightened, tired and upset and crying. I have been very concerned about the growing incidences of police behavior towards young men. They are profiling them and they are really aggressive right away.

Just last month two policeman detained Charles by the side of the road for a rolling stop. They asked to search his car and when he said no, they threatened to keep him there all night. So he said yes and they found nothing much to their disappointment. I know they are not nice to teenagers. But this is way over the line. Do my tax dollars need to pay TWO police officers to detain a teenager by the side of the road at night for two hours for a rolling stop? About the 6-count incident, we reported the event but even this was weird how it was handled internally and we are suspicious.

Charles is 6’2” and 128 pounds and suffers from anxiety disorder so the incident was very traumatizing.

Below are the marks on his arms from the officer sticking his fingers and squeezing Charles’ arms through his coat. They aren’t the most brutal wounds I’ve ever seen but they are weird form of torture that was totally unnecessary and unwarranted force for someone who was clearly cooperative. It’s as if he was trying to make him uncooperative so he could nail him with something. Which in fact he did.

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