A woman was arrested outside a Tempe bar early Sunday after police said she interfered with officers breaking up a fight, but video of the incident is raising questions — and the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office has already declined to prosecute, citing no reasonable likelihood of conviction.
Video recorded outside CASA on Mill Avenue in Tempe shows a woman approaching officers from the Tempe Police Department’s bike squad while officers are breaking up a fight. In the video, the woman is yelling before an officer pushes her and eventually takes her to the ground on top of one of the bikes.
According to court documents, on July 19, 2026, at approximately 1:45 a.m. the 21-year-old woman was placed under arrest for interference with a police investigation, aggravated assault on a police officer, and resisting arrest…