People pepper sprayed, one tasered in downtown Palm Springs
Heavy police presence in downtown Palm Springs as a pair of fights break-out in two locations, leading to multiple people being pepper sprayed and one tasered.
Palm Springs police confirmed that 4 to 5 people are being treated for decontamination after fights broke out in two separate areas shortly before 10 p.m. Police responded to reports of fights that broke out in the area of S Palm Canyon and E Tahquitz and another area south of Palm Canyon.
According to police, a man, later identified as Dylon Cooke, pepper-sprayed a group of people. Cooke ran away and a man who was pepper sprayed chased after him. In the middle of the chase, the sprayed man got into a heated argument with a woman. Officers say when they arrived on scene, the sprayed man was noncompliant and was “drive stunned,” a form of taser device without firing projectiles.
Police also confirmed Cooke took a cell phone after the pepper spraying.
Cooke and the tased man where both arrested. Cooke has been booked into the Larry D. Smith Correctional Facility in Banning.
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