When Charles Read went to renew his passport, he got a notification that there was a warrant out for his arrest.
A woman named Katherine Jensen told police that Read (an ex boyfriend from 20 years ago) had kicked in her door and choked her out, trying to steal the keys to her truck, and when he was unsuccessful, he fled on foot.
At first Charles Read thought someone was pulling his leg, but you can understand why he didn't notice -- because he's been paralyzed from the waist down for 25 years.
But when Read tried to be a stand-up guy and go to the police station to straighten things out, he was arrested.
Here's the body cam footage of that incident:
In that body cam footage, the arresting officer knocks him out of his chair and another officer can be heard saying,
It's a ruse, man. It's an obvious attempt not to go to jail.
But another officer pushes back:
You may want to call the district attorney's office, because if the door was kicked in, he didn't kick it in.
Ultimately, the district attorney dropped the obviously false charges against Read.
Andrew Fleischman, Read's attorney said,
I've never seen a case where somebody was so clearly innocent, and it would take so little work to establish it, and nobody was willing to do the work.
At this point, Jensen has not faced any charges for her clearly false report.
But I'm glad to see Charles Read walked away from this a free man.
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