A 22-year-old man was arrested Sunday evening at the Alaska State Fair after reports that he was allegedly threatening a child, according to the Palmer Police Department. The incident, witnessed by many and captured in a video circulating on social media, shows the man being taken into custody while a young child is removed from his arms. The video shows the child crying and experiencing a traumatic event.
Palmer Dispatch received a 911 call on Aug. 24 at approximately 8 pm, reporting a disturbance near the fair’s Purple Gate. The caller stated that Jeffry Kaelen Cook-Reed, 22, was allegedly walking away with a baby while screaming, and that he appeared intoxicated and smelled strongly of alcohol.
The caller further reported that Cook-Reed was attempting to strike individuals, making threats to bystanders, and threatening underage females in the area. Just before officers arrived, the caller alleged that Cook-Reed appeared to be harming the child.
Officers located Cook-Reed holding the child inside the Purple Trail area of the fairgrounds. Upon identification, dispatch confirmed that Cook-Reed had an active arrest warrant for Failure to Appear on an original charge of Assault in the Fourth Degree.
Due to the nature of the reports and concerns for the child’s safety, officers attempted to intervene as Cook-Reed tried to move past them. During the arrest, Cook-Reed and officers went to the ground, as one officer was able to safely secure the child.
Palmer Police said the child was not injured. The department also stated that the actions taken during the arrest are under review.
Those actions include use of force and fists by officers. No additional details regarding charges beyond the outstanding warrant have been released. Cook-Reed has posted bond and is not currently incarcerated.
I have seen the video and read several accounts of this. I find the whole thing troubling and sad.
Yeah this is a total smear campaign on the guy that got beat up. Those cops were way out of line. That was police brutality 100% arrest those officers they are way out of line. That child was not crying till they took him from his father and gave him to the woman. Government protecting their goons. That’s all this is we should all show up at the guys court appearance, and support him. We are going to be there if we can figure out when it is.
I will be there
Court view will tell you
I’d be disappointed if they didn’t use “force and fists” for this piece of garbage.
They did what they had to do for the safety of the child.
Not realistic at all! Just saying
Surreal for sure, Big Toke. The police should have tas-ed the juice out of him!
Had this been under the jurisdiction of “shoot first, tackle later” APD, there would have been no bond to post.
Had Mr. Cook-Reed been in possession of a weapon, it may well have been a “shoot first, tackle later not needed” result. No weapon while resisting? You get an ass whipping. Got a weapon while resisting? You get shot full of holes. It should be pretty simple to understand……..except for those who believe that rebellion comes for free, I guess…………
God, I so love APD. They could teach much to our Palmeranian PD friends.
Every cop should be a 5′ tall whisp of a woman w/ PMS, a budding mustache and an itchy trigger finger.
I love the Palmer Police Department. They took care of this out of control individual the correct way. No messing around.
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Where’s the Belgian Mallinois when you really need him. Perfect bite target.
Thank you for actually providing the type of relevant background context on this incident that corrupt, mainstream media loves to leave out as they paint the usual victim narrative.
What they didn’t put on here was that it was the mothers sister calling 911 and making false accusations to get the father of the niece arrested for bogus reason. There always more than two sides to a story. Theres also the truth.
I can already see the lawyers lining up……too bad and chances are he’ll win and get a bunch of money. it’s just part of the highly litigious world we live in.
Why not simply deploy the … “White Lightning?” Seems like a much more effective means to eliminate – control any potential threat and(!), it’s probably cool and fun!
Had he submitted and gone prone, this would have been over in two seconds. Continually resisting was not the correct choice.
My compliments to the WHITE HAIRED OFFICER. Took a lotta guts to engage in a physical take down of a young man in his prime. He should get the George Foreman award for Never Too Old. Thank You.
I don’t think it is coincidence that this only seems to happen to people that have warrants and criminal records.
Our corrupt mainstream media played this as police taking a child away from a loving parent. Leaving out little details like an active warrant and the strong smell of alcohol on the loving father’s breath. Good job APD! Maybe we should post the number of inmates incarcerated for child abuse, molestation, assault, and murder. We have several in for “shaking a baby to death.” Just saying…
Train the officer to use his other impact weapons. You can break your hands slugging people a friend did on his first day on patrol he had to take 3 months off for his hand to heal and get out of the cast
Using blows to the abdomen and the taser are classified as a less than deadly alternatives made to bring a thug into compliance. They subdued a cowardly violent drunk who was using his son as a shield. There is nothing on the books that demand police risk injury to themselves in the course of doing their jobs.
Thank you to the team of pros successfully sub doing subbing submission both these children in the names of goodness and health and a 4H lifestyle now all recite the codexX of the 4Hs 4each other
If it looks like a dirtbag, walks like a dirtbag and talks like a dirtbag, yep you guessed it.
Yep I guessed it, it’s a democrat….!
Wait but there’s is more!!!!!!! He didn’t just get taped at the fair. He also had a full show at the jail. How do I know this you ask. I was there in the jail on his arrival and he had so much more to deal with upon his arrival. I was stuck at the jail in palmer for time served on a bench warrant for a charge last year. The dude came in and was able to sign himself out that following day on a simple charge.
My strong guess is that Mr. Jeffry Cook-Reed is a Democrat and/or a radical leftist extremist (which are basically synonyms at this point), who was trying to free this child from his “patriarchal heteronormative anti-non-cis-binary transphobic oppression”.
This is how NBC, CBS or CNN will paint the story: —- An unruly inebriated child was kidnapped by Palmer police at the Alaska fair grounds this week. The child’s father was also violently assaulted by the same cop kidnappers. The loving father was simply trying to thwart his child’s attempt at becoming a degenerate alcoholic and reportedly was the one who called the Palmer police to the fairgrounds to help him reign in his wayward despotic kid.
The inebriated child had been avoiding outstanding arrest warrants for assault and battery on other children, some of whom were holding their own bottles at the time of the assaults.
This distressed father was arrested by these kidnapper police and is now being held without bail. His unruly child however is free, free to get back on the bottle! A Go Fund Me account has been created to receive donations from folks like you, the patriotic readers of MRAk. Please help this horrendously abused loving father get reunited with his kidnapped despotic child. Why, why can’t we all just get along?…!!!
In the style of Andrew Clavan. Loved it!
Love all the armchair quarterbacking. Every situation is different. Tase him, right? What if they hit the child? Would the current carry to the child? Clearly they improvised to first protect the child. No tasers, no guns, nobody hurt and yet the police still did wrong. Thank you Palmer Police for being there.
I think you can clearly see he was tased. Not sure why, since he was already on the ground and his hands were up. Also, what is with the punching? Didn’t know punching people was in the police manual.
Lots more questions than answers, and the police statement didn’t clear any of those up.
Punching is on the same rung of the force ladder as the baton, just above electrical incapacitating devices like stun guns. Which were higher than spicy hairspray/ OC
According to the parents the child was hurt. Had a large lump on her head. So I already am looking at the Palmer PD with caution.
A person with an outstanding warrant should expect no quarter. One look at the situation and should have been crystal clear to Jeffry Kaelen Cook-Reed (??) he was hopelessly outnumbered. What positive outcome could he have imagined fighting with the police? Cops never lose.
Is there a good reason why the Police didn’t bother to tell him what they were going to do and why? If I were holding my daughter and the cops decided to grab her from me, I would be pretty darned upset too. Whomever called the cops claimed a lot of things that were not clear from the video. Was he drunk? Was he threatening people? Where are the witnesses to this? He says he did not do any of those things. Maybe he did, but until the proof is clear, I think the cops acted rather rashly. I saw the girl crying, the mom claims they bruised her, so who was harming whom? Generally I respect cops and the difficult job they do, but it seems like this could have been handled better on both sides.
Tamra, How to you reason with a belligerent drunk?
Was he allowed in the fair drunk already?
Should drinking alcohol be allowed at the fair ?- maybe restrict it to after 5pm
Is there a drunk tank for people to sober up before they drink home?
Again, was he drunk? We have the word of an anonymous caller for that. Hardly proof. It could be that he was. Until we know, it’s hard to say what really went on.
Debi, you might want to enroll in an adult reading program. Your comprehension seems to be rather poor. This can be corrected with proper instruction and hard work. Best of luck!
From what I saw on the video, there was absolutely no reason for the Palmer Police to use such excessive force on the man, who’s fault would it have been if the child was hurt? Blame the father, they acted on hearsay, and how far does that go before a judge? Just asking
Several people I know went to the fair said this video was taken after the police finally (after multiple times trying to reason with him) cornered him.That he in fact was drunk, screaming obscenities at young girls as they walked by and just ruining everyone’s day.
The police tried ,and finally got fed up. That POS used his daughter as a shield and people are worried about a few punches to the ribs and a tap from the taser.