State prosecutors say Ketchikan’s police chief, while off duty, shoved a man into a stone wall and held him in a chokehold at a luxury fishing lodge in September.
In court documents, prosecutors say the alleged assault took place at the restaurant at Salmon Falls Resort about 16 miles north of downtown Ketchikan. On the night of September 10 a Washington state man at the restaurant was allegedly drunk and causing disturbances.
Walls held the man in the chokehold for one to two minutes, according to witnesses cited in court documents. The man’s face reportedly turned red and he was unable to speak. that the man’s drunken stumble left Walls and his wife bruised and in pain. He says Walls reacted appropriately. Assistant Attorney General Mark Clark is prosecuting the charges for the state’s Office of Special Prosecutions, which handles high-profile cases. He asked the judge to impose a $1,000 cash bond.
He also asked the judge to bar Walls from contacting any witnesses except for his wife. But Hochberg, Walls’ attorney, said that would be a problem: one of the witnesses is a Ketchikan police officer, one of Walls’ subordinates.
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