READING, Pa. – It’s an intense scene captured on a video that has gone viral. Police say it shows a man resisting arrest and being hit with a stun gun in downtown Reading.<\/p>\n
“I don’t know the individual, but it was absolutely something I haven’t seen in a long time,” said Michael Johnston of Reading. “For a guy to be actually tasered and walk away and take off down the street.”<\/p>\n
Police said officers were called to Ninth and Penn streets for the report of a man with a knife. They said that man, Kerry George, 35, of Reading, resisted questioning and then resisted them when he was going to be placed in handcuffs for officer safety.<\/p>\n
“I’m not really reacting surprised,” said David Segarra of Reading. “I’ve been here since 1990 and every day is always something new.”<\/p>\n
Police said George and his girlfriend, Kimberlee Fields, have been charged with multiple offenses, including aggravated assault and resisting arrest.<\/p>\n
“It looks like he assaulted a police officer,” Johnston said. “That was pretty bizarre in the middle of Reading.”<\/p>\n
Police said George was out on bail for a felony drug charge. A knife was recovered.<\/p>\n
Michael Johnston, who passes up and down Penn Street on his way to work, said he believes it’s still a safe area.<\/p>\n
“I see cops riding bikes down the street all the time, talking to me. They come to the hotel. They eat there. I shake their hand,” Johnston said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. – It’s an intense scene captured on a video that has gone viral. Police say it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,279,31,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-133833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-berks","tag-crime","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}