San Rafael police reports detail bloody arrest that provoked days of protests

Two San Rafael police officers involved in a bloody arrest in July said the man they took down tried to put one of them in a “headlock,” and they feared he would seize their weapons despite being too intoxicated to walk steadily, according to police reports obtained by the Independent Journal.

One of the officers, Brandon Nail, reported punching the man in the face during the confrontation, which started because the man was drinking a beer along a street in the Canal area.

The arrest ...