“I’ll do it again too,” a 33-year-old Minneapolis man told officers after he spit through an open squad car window at one of them, according to the complaint. He hit the officer’s forehead and mouth.
Dispatch sent officers to a store at about 4:52 p.m. on Nov. 6 on a report that a man was refusing to leave and was pepper-spraying and threatening staff and customers. Officers found Jeffrey Joseph Carillon and arrested him. A search turned up a black bottle of pepper spray in his hoodie pocket.
An employee told them Carillon had asked where the water was, then came to the counter and said he would blow up the store and beat up employees. The employee told him to leave. Carillon asked him to fight. The two fought outside. Carillon then came back in and sprayed toward the employee and a customer. The spray reached the employee but not his eyes, the complaint says.
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Officers got video of the incident. In it, the complaint says, Carillon is in a fighting stance throwing two punches outside while the employee punches him once. Carillon walks away and comes back a few minutes later, yelling at the customer and spraying in the direction of the customer and the employee.
In the squad car, an officer was trying to read Carillon a trespass warning when he spit through the open window. When another officer asked whether he had spit, he answered “Yeah, I did,” called it “fourth degree assault” and said “I’ll do it again too!” The complaint says he also made threats toward the officer.
Carillon is charged in Hennepin County District Court in a complaint filed Nov. 9 with two felonies. Threats of violence carries up to five years in prison or a $10,000 fine or both. Fourth-degree assault of a peace officer by throwing or transferring bodily fluids carries up to three years or a $6,000 fine or both. A judge set bail at $60,000.
