Lincoln police arrested a 37-year-old transient woman at the downtown library Wednesday afternoon after she started screaming, then bit two officers who were trying to arrest her when she refused to leave.
Officer Luke Bonkiewicz said a call came in at 2:50 p.m. about a woman screaming and refusing to leave the Bennett Martin Public Library at 14th and N streets. He said an officer arrived and asked Connie Booth to leave three times. When she wouldn’t go, Bonkiewicz said, the officer tried to arrest her for failure to comply, and Booth ripped his radio microphone off his chest, pulling his earpiece out.
Bonkiewicz said the officer took Booth to the ground and tried to get her arms behind her back to handcuff her. That’s when, he said, she bit his left arm. He said she bit a second officer on the right thumb when he tried to help get her into custody.
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Booth was arrested on suspicion of two counts of assault on an officer.