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Rock Island Cop Beaten While Responding To Domestic Battery Downtown

Mariah Woelfel
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WVIK News

A Rock Island police officer is recovering at home after allegedly being assaulted and beaten while responding to a call of domestic battery at a downtown Rock Island apartment building on Thursday evening.

Police Chief Jeff VenHuizen says body camera footage from the officer's uniform shows him being knocked unconscious by a 35-year-old man named Cartier Leflore.

"In my almost 25 years in law enforcement with the Rock Island Police Departments, it's one of the most brutal attacks I've seen on a police officer." 

Venhuizen says Leflore then took the officer's Taser and ran through the apartment building. 

It took three additional officers to remand him. He was Tased, sent to a hospital, and is now at the Rock Island County Jail. 

Leflore is charged with aggravated battery of grave bodily harm, aggravated battery of a police officer, and disarming a police officer.

The officer who was assault was sent to the hospital and has since been discharged. 

The police department is not releasing the name of the officer who was assaulted. VenHuizen says he will be out of work and recovering "for some time."