Contrary to initial police reports, William Jerome Armstrong did not approach the cop in an aggressive manner with his “fist balled up” after he was confronted for parking in a fire lane in front of an Indiana Walmart last month while waiting to pick up his little sister.
Perhaps that is why the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office chose not to file felony charges of battery on a law enforcement officer and other felonies against the Black man who last month was the subject of viral videos recorded by witnesses showing two Lawrence police officers punching and kicking him.
However, the prosecutor’s office on Friday filed a red flag petition to take his guns away from him, according to online records from the Marion Superior Court.
Lawrence police confiscated a legally owned gun from the back seat of his car after his arrest on Feb. 18 and it is not clear if he owns any more guns, but the petition would allow them to not return the confiscated gun to him, despite no charges being filed against him…