Last night, 7news showed you exclusive video of Mark King's brawl at the border. This followed the tantrum he is reported to have thrown in the Princess Casino at the border. At the Princess, he is reported to have confronted Casino staff and security, but the border is where he got into it with police. And we don't have to say allegedly in this case because we have the video which shows him wrestling with a police officer. Last night we got that amateur cell phone video just before the news; today, we've had more time to analyses and dissect it. Daniel Ortiz did that this morning - and here's his play by play of that confrontation:
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Coming out of that, Police Constable Nelson Ramos, charged King for committing an aggravated assault against him. Police continue that during that incident, he engaged in disorderly conduct, but perhaps the most attention-grabbing charge is the use of threatening words.
Again, PC Ramos alleges that while trying to intervene and get King under control, King said, quote, 'Ah Feel like shoot you with mih gun.
He was granted bail of $4,000 DOLLARS.
It is notable that police also had a 4th charge of assaulting a police officer which they intended to bring against him. However, when Magistrate Lino read the charge to him, he told the court that he didn't know about it.
At that point, the police prosecutor informed the court that police will not be pressing that charge, so King didn't have to answer to that one.
We should note that a conviction of Aggravated Assault carries a sentence of two years imprisonment.
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