Footage shows violent altercation between army vet, officers at Coeur d'Alene hospital

555 Harrison McLean writhed in pain as his wife, Lindsay, drove him to the Kootenai Health emergency room last summer following an allergic stomach reaction. Before the 29-year-old Army veteran and National Guardsman could get in front of a doctor, though, the McLeans were in police custody, each accused of assaulting law enforcement in the ER's waiting room. Both face possible felony convictions when they go to trial in June. They've refused plea deals, including one that would have amended the charge to a misdemeanor along with a fine and a year of probation, adamantly citing excessive use of force. "We thought that this would have been relieved once the prosecutors saw the videos and read the police reports and saw the discrepancies in the police reports," said Lindsay McLean, who came to the hospital after celebrating an anniversary with friends. "But there was never any movement." The late-night Aug. 27 incident - one involving a couple with no prior criminal records and an officer respected in his department, each side blaming the other for the escalation - began when hospital staff suspected Lindsay McLean of driving drunk after she drove into the ER entry the wrong way, subsequently giving up her keys. When Jacob Proctor, one of two responding officers to the DUI call, walked into the lobby after speaking to the reporting receptionist, he approached the woman, who was speaking to officer Emily Taylor as Harrison McLean sat in a chair. Proctor reported smelling alcohol on the woman's breath and other signs of intoxication, and had received witness statements that she was believed to be drunk.

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