The incident took place on August 7 at around 2:45 a.m. after Muskogee police witnessed her son, Arthur Paul Blackmon, run a stop sign.
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Officers involved are being interviewed and the situation is being investigated before any decision is made on a resolution.
Muskogee Police Chief Rex Eskridge said he supplied the body-cam footage in a gesture of transparency.
Officers said they then used pepper spray. The women then came out and police commanded her to turn around.
Approximately 40 seconds elapsed between the command and when the woman was pepper sprayed, according to a KOKI examination of the video.
“This is a very important issue”.
“It starts off as a traffic stop – that’s a low misdemeanor – but based on the other evidence gathered in those three minutes… it could be a severe crime”. Officers, debating entry into the home, reportedly heard a male and a female shouting “call police” and “call 911”. Despite chasing Blackmon, the officers did not have a warrant to enter Geneva’s home.
Smith, who was sleeping, was roused awake by all the commotion, and tried to figure out what was going on. Wood told the Muskogee Phoenix that Smith had actively resisted officers and that the use of force was reasonable “given the totality of the circumstances”.
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“My mother’s 84 years old, mother f–“, Blackmon said when Smith was pepper-sprayed, according to the video. The man refused to come out of the house when told, police said.
