Something similar happened to me in my LE days.Jumping Frog wrote: I've also read of stories where a woman is screaming for help, bloody and beaten. The police arrive and are her savior. However, when they start to handcuff and arrest the guy, suddenly that same whimpering wife is attacking the policeman with a kitchen knife to "defend her man".
We got a DV call and, upon walking up to the house, I could see through the front window a male and female on the floor, with the male on top beating her with both fists. My partner and I entered the house and tackled the guy.
As we were putting the cuffs on him, I felt something hit me in the back. It was his wife with a broom, hitting me with the wooden broomstick part, telling me to let him go. She said she just wanted us to get him to stop hitting her, not take him to jail.
I told her we aren't referees. We cuffed her but ended up not arresting her after she calmed down. The husband did become a guest of the Parish for that evening.
I'm fairly sure every cop has a similar story.