After kicking a patrol car on a wild night out with her family, a drunken teenage girl was tackled by police and played dead in the street before being let go.
During the incident in Warrington, Cheshire, last month, Chelsea Henley, 18, slouched to the group as an officer struggled to help her stand.
Officers advised the McDonald’s employee to go home because she had been drinking a lot before she insistedently punched a PC in the chest in front of her family.
After being forced into a police van, she threw objects at the officers before being led to the cells and given time to calm down.
Henley pleaded guilty to one count of assaulting a medical professional and one count of being intoxicated and disorderly at Warrington Magistrates Court.
Henley was allegedly found to be intoxicated by police when they encountered her early on May 29 in Warrington’s town center near Bridge Street.
The defendant was brought to PC Pringle and another officer’s attention at 2.15 a.m. in Warrington town center while they were on uniformed duty, according to the prosecutor, Alex Morgan.
She turned around, walked up to PC Pringle, and kicked his car.
She tumbled to the ground, but there was no damage done. She was lying on the ground, her eyes closed, but she was still breathing.
The defendant wouldn’t get up until she was told she was going to be arrested, despite PC Brown’s best efforts to rouse her.
The court was informed that despite PC Pringle telling Henley to leave the area, she pushed him to his chest with both hands.
PC Pringle took the defendant to the ground and arrested her for assaulting police, Ms. Morgan continued.
“She tried to kick out before being held and put in the back of the police car,” the report states of the incident.
Gary Schooler, Healey’s attorney, argued in court that Healey was acting “out of character” and had “obviously consumed extra alcohol.”
Henley admitted guilt to both counts and was sentenced to pay a fine of £140 along with costs of £119 and a victim surcharge.
She was initially accused of being intoxicated by the police, and only after a review by CPS attorneys was she charged with assault.
Henley was sentenced by Katherine Whitaker, chair of the magistrates’ bench, who told Henley: “I hope you don’t think it was a wonderful night given that you ended yourself in court.
“It doesn’t seem like a fun night out in the least,” I said.
“Emergency employees should be protected at work and should not anticipate being assaulted while performing their duties.”
“There won’t be any compensation, but I hope you’ll pay attention to this and that we don’t run into one other again.”