SEATTLE — King County prosecutors say a Seattle police officer who broke a woman’s eye socket during an arrest this summer will not face criminal charges.
KOMO-TV reports that prosecutors believe Officer Adley Shepherd acted “professionally and with restraint” until he was kicked in the head by a woman as he was putting her in his patrol car. Shepherd responded with a punch to the woman’s head that broke her eye socket.
He was responding to a call on June 22 that a woman was threatening a family member at a Seattle home. Prosecutors say he found the woman drunk and argumentative and that she resisted arrest.
The case was investigated by the Washington State Patrol and passed on to King County prosecutors for review of a potential assault charge.
Prosecutors concluded they would not be able to prove his use of force was criminal.
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