Deal offered Black man who claims police brutality

The prosecution offered a resolution Monday in its case against a Danville man, who is accused of attacking police and who has accused police of brutality. Robbie Houston, 43, will be back in Boyle District Court 1:30 p.m. Nov. 1. His Frankfort attorney, Willie Peale, asked the court Monday that Houston and his family be given time to consider the deal, the details of which were not disclosed. Houston has said that while being arrested in June officers treated him roughly, and he had to defend himself. He said he was hit with a metal baton, sprayed with chemicals, punched and kneed. He also said that a police officer drove his cruiser into another vehicle while trying to take him to jail. Houston has been charged with four felony counts of assaulting a police officer, and three misdemeanors, resisting arrest, disorderly conduct and criminal mischief.[more ]