EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WEHT) — Video obtained by ABC News shows the training exercise between the late Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Deputy Asson Hacker and Knox County Sheriff’s Deputy Michael Fisher.
The Evansville Police Department defensive tactics outline says the fight covers specific techniques that go from being on the ground to standing up and fighting.
Voices heard in the background of the video tell Hacker what to do and how to help him win the exercise. Fisher punches him and Hacker lets out an audible sound of pain followed by heavy breathing.
The lawsuit claims that fisher has significantly more training and weighed more than Hacker. When interviewed, Fisher says Hacker was about average during the seven-minute fight.
“He was strong though there was a time in – you know how it is trying to remember, but you don’t, it’s video so yeah what I remember is probably different, but he had pushed – went to do a takedown or tackle and that kind of – we both went into the wall a little bit, went down and then we moved around. He got the cuff and by then, I started to get pretty sloppy about the – I would guess the four-and-a-half-minute mark, and throwing some haymakers getting sloppy,” says Fisher.