Sgt. Valentin returned the donation box and ordered his officers to take the printed materials across the street, placing them into a patrol vehicle. No confiscation forms were issued to Phillips.
At 1:43 the police contingent moved back across the street in front of their patrol cars. After several moments while protesters were screaming at the officers, Sgt. Valentin and another officer, Quinn (badge number 3212), returned to the Trinity side of Broadway. They approached a female protester, Victoria Darling, who was yelling loudly at them.
A group of protesters came over to the officers. Sgt. Valentine tried to push his way past her. When she didn't move he pushed her with his hand twice on the shoulder, then a third time directly on her breast, where he let his hand remain until she grabbed it and forced it off of her breast.
"He cupped my breast, I felt violated, I felt raped, I felt my rights were gone, he didn't even acknowledge he did something wrong," said Darling, 20 years of age.
After several minutes in which she and other protesters screamed at the police in response to the unwanted sexual contact by Sgt. Valentin, Darling told police, "I will defend myself next time, I don't care if you have a badge it's my right as a woman to defend myself."
Angry protesters chanted, "Dirtbag, scum, your careers are done."
As the officers stood across the street smiling and laughing among themselves the protesters became even more agitated shouting slurs such as "rapists," "traitor," and "un-american" at them.
When a maintenance employee from one of the buildings across the street joined in the laughter and made inflammatory comments at the protesters their anger was further aroused. A group of protesters, one of them with a screwdriver in his hand, chased the middle-aged man back into his building.
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