Anthony Joseph LopezRed Bank Police Chief Tim Christol did an about-face Friday.
On Monday, Christol told the Times Free Press that a report documenting Officer Mark Kaylor’s use of force during the Aug. 4 arrest of Anthony Lopez didn’t exist.
But on Friday he produced a copy of the missing report and said the original had been lost.
The new-found police documents say Kaylor struck Anthony Lopez twice in the head during the August arrest that took the skin and hair off of Lopez’s head.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is already investigating Kaylor for striking another man in the head seven times during an April arrest – an event that prompted Lopez to speak out about his own altercation with the officer during a traffic stop after a wrong-way chase around 3 a.m. Aug. 4.