Mlk Observation

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On January 16, 2017 at approximately 1603 while working the Martin Luther King celebration at Fort Mellon Park, located at 600 E. 1st Street, I observed a large crowd moving west from the park toward the event field.

Officer Gentry and I begin walking alongside the crowd to see what was going on. As Officer Gentry and I walked toward the field some of the crowd stopped moving. At this time two groups of MLK participants began walking toward each other that’s when Officer Gentry and I began to walk toward the groups to keep them separated. Suddenly, a black female who was later identified as Sanaa Wynn charged toward victim Ebony Williams and began throwing punches. Officer Gentry and I attempted to break up the two groups however there were

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