Reeves said in an interview that he and Caine were sleeping in Reeves’ car in front of Caine’s apartment at roughly 3 a.m., when Laird approached and questioned the two. Reeves was the designated driver that evening and said that when they returned to Caine’s home, Caine had been drinking and was tired and needed to “rest up a few minutes” before going into the apartment.
Reeves, who was in the driver’s seat, passed a field sobriety test and was released. Caine said he insisted on calling his lawyer but that Laird took his cellphone and put him in handcuffs.
After speaking with Reeves, Laird returned “and starts screaming and hollering, ‘Sit down! Sit down!'” Caine recalled.
“I said, ‘Officer, can I call my attorney? I want to call my attorney,'” Caine said. “So I wind up on the ground sitting down on my back. My weight had tightened the cuffs around my wrists, so it was hurting me.”
Caine recalled, “If I didn’t stop screaming and hollering [he said] he was going to arrest Marvin.”
Caine was later charged with resisting arrest and aggravated assault of a police officer.