Remember this guy? He was later freed.
Well, apparently the police in Nashua didn’t learn their lesson and have started some crap with him.
Maybe Michael Gannon shouldn’t have given lip to two police detectives that afternoon.
But Gannon claims he wouldn’t have said a word on July 1 if a detective – unprovoked, Gannon said – hadn’t shouted something at him as their unmarked police car passed by on Canal Street.At the time, Gannon said he was standing with his back to traffic in a parking spot commonly used by motorcycles across from the Dunkin’ Donuts near the intersection of Canal and Main streets.
Gannon said he didn’t hear the exact words the Nashua police detective yelled from the passenger window, but he caught the gist.
“They said something about my son only they and I would know,” Gannon said.
Gannon’s teenage son has been in trouble with the law. So has he. It was in this context that Gannon responded as he did, he said.
“There goes corruption at its finest,” Gannon, 55, of 24 Temple St., admits he yelled back at the passing police detectives.
That precipitated a chain of events in which Gannon was tackled, maced, handcuffed and then punched and kicked by two police detectives as he lay on the ground, according to Gannon and two witnesses, Pamela Reynolds, who was also arrested, and her boyfriend, Brian Raymond.
All three say Gannon didn’t resist arrest, only turned his back and began to walk away from the detectives after being told he wasn’t under arrest.
“I didn’t have time to resist,” Gannon said.
The two detectives were on him immediately, he said.
He and the other two witnesses said police overreacted to his wisecrack.
“I blew his ego with that comment. By all means, that detective was unglued,” Gannon said.
It also probably didn’t help Gannon’s cause that he told police he was videotaping the incident with a small Kodak mini camcorder.
Utter insanity. And there are plenty of witnesses to what happened, not to mention his camera.
This oughta be good. Get the popcorn ready!