FORT WORTH -- Lady Liberty was apparently not acting very ladylike.
A 19-year-old man dressed as the Statue of Liberty to drum up business for a local tax service was shocked with a Taser and arrested Monday afternoon after refusing to leave a roadway median, then resisting arrest, police say.Channing Dontray Gould of Fort Worth was wearing a light green robe and Statue of Liberty headdress when Fort Worth police officer R.T. Greer spotted him dancing in the median of the 4800 block of North Tarrant Parkway about 2 p.m.Noting that Gould was distracting the traffic flow, Greer told him three times on his patrol car's public-address system to leave the median.Gould ignored the command, then waved Greer off, according to a police report.Greer got out of his car and approached Gould, telling him several times that he needed to leave the median.Gould replied that he was working, the report states."This is not your jurisdiction," Gould reportedly told the officer. "Get away from me."After making other attempts to persuade Gould to leave the median, Greer told Gould that he was under arrest for violating the city ordinance on distributing, selling or soliciting on the median and traffic islands.Gould refused to get in the patrol car, and Greer called for backup and pulled his Taser.When help arrived, the officer tried to handcuff Gould, who resisted, the report says.Greer tried twice to shock Gould with his Taser. The first shock, to Gould's back, had no apparent effect, the report states.After the second firing, in which the Taser probes struck Gould in the forehead and below the left ear, officers gained control and handcuffed him, the report states.He was taken by ambulance to John Peter Smith Hospital to be evaluated and have the Taser probes removed before being booked into jail.He faces a charge of resisting arrest.A manager at the nearby Liberty Tax Service, for which Gould was working, declined to comment.Deanna Boyd, 817-390-7655Twitter: @deannaboydHave more to add? News tip? Tell us
