Cops assault grandma baking cookies

Twin Cities
Feb. 03, 2011

"Plaintiff passes the officers to retrieve the cookies out of the hot oven. As she passes them, Breunig asks if she has I.D. Plaintiff responds, 'What? No, I don't have an I.D. on me, I'm home baking Christmas cookies, I don't need it." [...]

After some more discussion, Breunig told LeVert-Woitalla that he could arrest her for "obstruction of my investigation," the suit contends. She objected; the dog started barking; and when the officer told her to take the dog away, LeVert-Woitalla replied, "Then on that note, you can get the ... out of my house!"

The complaint says "Breunig became infuriated" and grabbed the woman and she tried to break free. The officer grabbed her wrist and bent her over the living room couch.

The woman alleges the officer then slammed her head into a wall and dragged her outside the house. She claims the officer threw her on the ground, breaking her glasses, blackening an eye and bruising her shoulder and collarbone.

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