Red Bank officer may be charged after violent arrest

photo Neal Pinkston

Red Bank police officer Mark Kaylor could face charges for his role in the violent arrest of a man on April 13, 2014, District Attorney Neal Pinkston said today.

The case will go before the grand jury next week, Pinkston said.

Pinkston made the decision to take the case to the grand jury after reviewing the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation's months-long report into the officer's actions during and after the arrest.

Pinkston asked TBI to investigate after the Red Bank Police Department originally cleared Kaylor of any wrongdoing and initially withheld a video of the arrest, according to the release.

The video from the April 13 traffic stop shows Kaylor punching 24-year-old Candido Medina-Resendiz in the arm and face while other officers held him down, stun-gunned him and tried to handcuff him.

The encounter left Medina-Resendiz with a swollen-shut eye, a fractured eye socket and cuts and bruises on his face. Medina-Resendiz filed a complaint of excessive force against the Red Bank Police Department on July 31, and the internal affairs investigator concluded on Aug. 25 that Kaylor did not use excessive force.

After Medina-Resendiz went public with his allegations of excessive force, a second man also claimed that Kaylor roughed him up during an arrest earlier in 2014.

Anthony Lopez, 34, wore a thick white bandage in his Aug. 4 booking photo and claimed that Kaylor scraped the skin and hair off the top of his head during an arrest. Unlike the April arrest, that time police had no video or audio recordings of the incident.

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