There's controversy in the town of Weatherford, Thursday night, after college students accuse police officers of forcing them to crawl to avoid being arrested for public intoxication.
WEATHERFORD, Oklahoma -
The
Weatherford Police Department has taken action against four of their officers
after students at Southwestern Oklahoma State University were forced to crawl
on their hands and knees.
Dylan Frizzell
and his friends were walking to a friend's house last month when officers
accused them of public intoxication. Frizzell says that's when the officers
told them if they'd crawl back, they wouldn't get arrested.
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The police
department says after investigating, it suspended patrolman Austin Ellis for
two weeks, without pay, and demoted Kyle Bridges, Travis Ratcliffe and Ryan
Sweeden from the rank of Sergeant back to Patrolman.