Yea, according to this article Phoenix Police Officer Jason Gillespie beat the living sh*t out of Marti Winkler for no reason at all.
Phoenix officer found not liable in lawsuit from woman who suffered fractured skull
Uriel J. Garcia, Arizona Republic
Published 4:35 p.m. MT April 12, 2019
A jury has found a Phoenix police officer not liable in a civil lawsuit alleging he used excessive force against a 56-year-old woman who suffered four fractures to her skull and some bleeding to the brain.
After a four-day trial, which started on Tuesday in a U.S. District Court in Phoenix, the jury decided that Officer Jason Gillespie's one-arm take-down technique against Martha Winkler, now 61, was a reasonable amount of force.
Both offered contrasting testimony of their confrontation on July 16, 2014, outside of a Circle K on the corner of Seventh Street and Bethany Home Road.
Winkler went to the Circle K to buy $3 worth of lottery tickets.
'I thought he was there to help'
After miscommunication between a Circle K clerk and Winkler, the woman called the police because she felt the clerk had more nefarious intentions when he charged her the wrong amount of a lottery ticket.
Gillespie arrived at the convenience store after Winkler called 911 a total of seven times during an hour wait.
"I thought he was there to help," Winkler said.
When Winkler approached him, she testified, Gillespie aggressively asked her, "What do you want?" after he got out of his patrol vehicle. She said Gillespie walked inside the store, spoke to two clerks, came back out, asked for her ID, and told her the clerks said she had been trespassing.
She testified the officer never told her she was under arrest.
"He grabbed my wrist, and next thing I remember is I was in the (hospital)," she said. 'She started screaming and yelling'
Gillespie said when he arrived at the Circle K, Winkler immediately demanded in an angry tone that he get his supervisor to the scene.
He told the jury that he went into the store to speak to the Circle K clerks because one of them had also called 911 to report the woman.
After he came out of the store to speak to Winkler, Gillespie said, he told her what the employees had said. He also testified that he told her she was trespassing but that Winkler began to argue.
"I explained, 'You're trespassing; you need to leave,'" he testified.
But she didn't leave, he said. After the officer told her she was under arrest, "She started screaming and yelling," he testified.
He said he then grabbed her wrists and took her to the ground. Gillespie called an ambulance and eventually a supervisor.
Closing arguments
In his closing arguments, one of Winkler's lawyers, Jocquese L. Blackwell, said that regardless of why Winkler called 911, she didn't deserve to get hurt.
“In America, when you go to a Circle K, in any city, any state, you should leave the same way you came," he said.
Still, Kathleen L. Wieneke, one of Gillespie's lawyers, during her closing arguments, put the blame on Winkler. [Kathleen L. Wieneke doesn't sound like a good lawyer. Hell, Kathleen L. Wieneke sounds like a lousy lawyer]
“If Martha Winkler had just taken her lottery ticket and walked away, then none of this would have happened," she said.
Uriel Garcia covers public-safety issues in Arizona. Reach him at uriel.garcia@azcentral.com. Follow him on Twitter @ujohnnyg.