A Utah man claims an officer purposely struck him with a police cruiser as retaliation for not listening to commands, but the officer said he never hit the man.
Chad Scott Lockwood, 53, was riding his bicycle through an intersection July 28 when he alleges Unified Police Officer Christopher Schroeder came up behind him in his police cruiser and struck him with no warning.
Lockwood has filed a lawsuit against the officer in Utah’s U.S. District Court, alleging excessive force and illegal detention and arrest.
In audio of a news conference provided to The Tribune from FOX 13, Salt Lake County Sheriff Rosie Rivera — who oversees Unified police — said that she hasn’t seen any evidence her officer did anything wrong, adding Schroeder’s version of what happened that day is different from Lockwood’s.