Bria Ellerbe Coleman, 32, of Richmond, Virginia, is accused of hitting a female police officer with her right hand across the left side of the officer’s face while physically resisting arrest. The officer and two others held Coleman down on the ground while attempting to place handcuffs on her on Feb. 11 at 9:43 p.m. at the Chevron gas station at 2370 Delk Road in Marietta, according to an arrest warrant from the Cobb County Police Department.
Once handcuffs were placed on Coleman, the three officers walked her to a patrol car. Coleman then slipped out of the handcuffs and grabbed the female officer’s hair and started pulling. The officer sustained injuries to her right pinky and bruising/swelling to the left side of her face. Coleman also kicked a male officer after slipping out of the handcuffs. He sustained injuries to his right middle finger and the left side of his groin. Inside the Cobb County Jail Intake, Coleman yelled at the female officer that the officer should have “bashed her head into the concrete,” according to the warrant.
The arrest was initiated after Coleman drove a black Mercedes ML 350 from the parking lot of the Shell gas station at 2365 Delk Road across eight lanes of travel, including a raised median, and entered a parking spot at the Chevron gas station, according to the warrant…