TROY – Police are conducting an internal investigation after
a city resident says he was unnecessarily beaten by police.
It started with a disagreement between an officer and the
accuser on Facebook.
Brian Houle, 40, is charged with disorderly conduct and
resisting arrest. But Houle paints a very different picture. He's charging
police brutality. He filed charges against Officer Kyle Jones on Tuesday
morning.
Houle has two black eyes, cuts to the side of his face and
he's wearing an arm brace. He says these are all injuries he suffered overnight
after he claims to have been attacked by Jones.
He says that led to a heated phone conversation.
Then he says the officer came out to his street and was
snooping around his car with a flashlight overnight.
Houle claims when he went out to see why, the officer
followed him back to the porch of his house and assaulted him.
“He kept hitting me with a flashlight, kept hitting me with
a flashlight and then a boot, kicked me, punched me. I saw another patrol
officer come up and I thought 'Ok, this is my saving grace.' But it wasn't my
saving grace. That patrol officer dragged me to the concrete, smashed my face
into the concrete,” said Houle.
The report says Houle walked in front of the police car and
resisted arrest. A struggle took place from there.
Police will not talk about any of this because of the
internal investigation.