ROCKLAND, Maine — A Rockland officer suffered an eye injury when he was attacked Monday morning by a woman, police say.
Officer Lloyd Daniels responded shortly before 9:30 a.m. to a request to check on the well-being of a woman on Fulton Street. When Daniels arrived, the woman, Ellen Copeland, 46, of Rockland, ran from her residence and went to a neighbor’s house where she attempted to gain entry by smashing out a window, according to Deputy Police Chief Wally Tower.
When the officer attempted to stop her she scratched and bruised his eyes, Tower said. Daniels called for backup, and officers arrived and took Copeland to Pen Bay Medical Center in Rockport for evaluation.
Daniels suffered an injury to his left eye and will be out of work for at least a week, Tower said.
On her release from the hospital, Copeland will be charged with assault on an officer and criminal mischief, Tower said.
He said drugs are suspected of contributing to the incident.
Drugs may be a contributing factor but her problem seems to be more than that.
4-methylmethcathinone
aka “Bath Salts”
I heard this call go over the scanner when it happened. You could actually hear her screaming at the top of her lungs over the police radio. Bet she wishes she never put a hand on an officer.
Why she will only see 10 days if that
No not in all cases, assault on an officer is a mandatory 364 days. Plus, she has another charge added. Not unless she is good looking, then she might get it all suspended.
perhaps he should have had backup before he arrived..hmmm
Why would they send two officers to check the wellbeing of someone? hmmmmm
this street is trouble and that is an understatement, he does have a taser and is at least 6ft tall? hmmm knowledge of the community your “protecting & serving” he shouldnt have gone alone
Under Maine’s predominant aggressor laws and LePage’s new proposed domestic violence
laws, this officer would be arrested and held without bail due to the emotional abuse he inflicted on that poor little helpless woman. According to the governor and the corrupt DV industry, it is men who are responsible for violence and so the focus of the court system is now centered on punishing men who are accused of anything by any women.
Lower class females are radical feminists’ and government’s best friends, and are used to
suspend Mainer’s 2nd, 4th, and 14th Amendment. Under the new proposed DV laws, it will no longer be the judge or the jury, but instead the radical feminist DV groups will be given the power to decide through their own “risk assessments” if any accused man should be preemptively imprisoned without any bail, without a trial, based mainly on an accusation made by any woman.
The US Contitution has been suspended in Maine. Sadly, people won’t read about it in the paper, nor hear about it on TV. By the time people find out what’s really going on it’s too late.
“Lower class females”? Do you think DV is only a lower-class crime? DV is going on in some of the country’s finest families and the majority of it is committed by men.
I happen to disagree with the statement the majority are men . Maybe of reported or convicted yes maybe in cases of real injuries yes . but I am sure we all have seen a woman slap a man many times an not got involved . Now that being said do you look the other way when a man slaps a woman?
Good luck with your Workers Comp. claim officer.
I witnessed Officer Daniels being attack by this lady. I didn’t realize that Rockland had some many vehicles. There were four marked cruisers, three unmarked (including the Chief) vehicles with inside blues and two rescue vehicles. This lady was out of control, which is not unusal, but the response was just insane. It’s appeared to me that caution for public safety was thrown to the wind. A citizen stopped and help Daniels cuff this women. These people can’t work but they can have there drugs or whatever. Hey, what to hell, it keeps me working to pay for them so I won’t complain.
I guess they should have held meeting before sending help to this officer, so they could have figured out who would respond and who wouldn’t.
that’s an ignorant statement. Nothing says she doesn’t pay her own way. Why assume…….you may be the next one in the soup kitchen line!!
You may think it is ignorant but I have known this people for years. I go to work everyday to pay for people that refuse to help themselves. So if that makes me ignorant them I guess I am.
Did they all say Rockland on them? When an officer calls for backup, they never know what kind of situation they can get into. Not just for themselves, but for the person being arrested. In this case with his eyes being injured, one would not know if she could of grabbed a weapon. A response for backup is never insane.
I believe communication would be what is lacking.
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Francis J Mazzeo
I believe communication would be what is lacking.
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Francis J Mazzeo
Four of them did and two private rides were Rockland officers. They know these people just as well as anyone does. Nobody wants to see an officer get injured. I still think it was overkill.
If they know them as well as you did, maybe that why they all responded, and depending on the neighborhood. If I had a problem like that around here, and one needed back up I would consider it fortunate to have that many to go.
Can you say Bath Salts
What? Bath salts again? I feel so badly for this officer. She probably won’t even get jail for what she did to him. If she does, it won’t be long.