If this reporter, a professional writer, can't get the grammar right, it doesn't add to his credibility. Maybe he was a victim of the liberals' "whole language" method of teaching English.
...was started by the officer "inappropriately touching and stopping" her...
And there we have the sexual harassment card. If you can't win on the facts, stir up a lot of emotion, distort the sequence of events, and hope your audience doesn't notice you're lying.
I agree, we need to see the tape.
I got the impression that the tape mentioned was of a previous incident.
Do you think there's a tape of this one? If so, bring it on.