Ex-Officer Charged In Arrest Of Former Football Player

A former suburban-Atlanta police officer who was fired last year after an internal investigation found he used unnecessary force during the arrest of a former college football player has been charged with simple battery.

The Henry County district attorney's office said in an email Friday that former county police officer David Rose was charged this week. The court document charging Rose says he
"did intentionally make physical contact of an insulting and provoking nature to Desmond Marrow by grabbing him by the neck and choking him." Marrow is black and Rose is white.

Rose's lawyer, Lee Sexton, said Rose has decided not to contest the simple battery charge.

Rose was recorded on his in-car video camera system saying that he had choked Marrow and that he wasn't going to include that information in his report, Henry County police Chief Mark Amerman said.

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