A Houston area couple and the Harris County Sheriff’s Department have very different accounts of how the couple’s night out at a Katy bar ended with the woman in a hospital.
Penny Jacobsen-Boettcher and her husband, Isaiah, claim an off-duty Harris County sheriff’s deputy assaulted her at Mo’s Place bar in Katy Sunday night.
According to an incident report released by Harris County, deputies were called to the bar on Kingsland Boulevard to assist an off-duty deputy who was working at the bar.
Jacobsen-Boettcher says she got into an altercation with a customer she bumped into at the bar, and that the off-duty deputy who was employed by the bar to work security escorted her out.
Jacobsen-Boettcher insisted she did nothing wrong, and said the deputy handcuffed her and slammed her to the ground.
"They're lifting me by the handcuffs behind my back, my poor husband had to watch this and there was nothing he could do,” Jacobsen-Boettcher said in a news conference she held with community activist Quannel X Wednesday.
According to the deputy’s report,Jacobsen-Boettcher was combative and smelled of alcohol, a claim she and her husband denied.
In the report, the deputy wrote that Jacobsen-Boettcher “went limp” when deputies tried to detain her, falling forward to the ground and causing another deputy to fall on top of her.
Part of the incident was captured on surveillance video from a neighboring business, obtained by a member of Jacobsen-Boettcher’s family.
A representative from Mo’s Place declined to comment on the incident.
"I was in disbelief. I was in shock that, you know, something like this could happen,” Jacobsen-Boettcher's husband said. “The anger is there but I'm helpless, like what can I do?"
Jacobsen-Boettcher pointed to bruises on her face, arms, shoulder and knees, claiming she suffered those injuries during the conflict at the bar.
The incident report states Jacobsen-Boettcher refused medical treatment at the scene, which she flatly denied as “not true.”
Quannel X called for the deputy to be disciplined.
"This is a question of humanity. What man, what human being could do this to a grandmother,” Quannel X said in Wednesday’s news conference outside of the Harris County Jail.
The Harris County Sheriff’s Office confirmed the couple met with representatives from it's Internal Affairs Division Wednesday and filed a complaint.
Woman claims off-duty deputy assaulted her
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