Controversy is brewing around the police again– but not the UCF Police.
The Orlando police department, who is currently leading the investigation to the UCF PD/Jennifer Vest controversy we were the first to report on, is now dealing with their own potential scandal.
Greg Daley, the son of World War II veteran Daniel J. Daley, claims that his 84-year old father is in critical condition at Florida Hospital Orlando after suffering a broken neck, following a confrontation with an Orlando police officer, according to the Orlando Sentinel.
Daniel Daley is accused of hitting, grabbing and attempting to punch Officer Travis Lamont. The officer responded by grabbing the veteran and bringing him to the ground, police spokeswoman Sgt. Barbara Jones told the Orlando Sentinel.
“The officer asked Daley not to touch him,” Jones said. “He reached out, grabbed the officer around his neck and tried to punch him.”
Jones also claimed that the elderly man said, “I’m not going anywhere until I knock out this cop.”
However, Daley’s family has denied it happened that way, and some eyewitnesses claim it was the officer that went too far.
“I’ve never seen anything like it,” bar owner Tim Scott told the Orlando Sentinel on Sunday. “He hip-checked the guy and slammed his head into the pavement. He [Daley] is too old for that.”
Nicole Butler, a bartender at The Caboose, claimed she saw Daley put his hands on the officer’s shoulders, and the officer responded by “body-slamm[ing]” Daley to the ground.
For more information, see this article from the Orlando Sentinel.
