
Wheatley said he would remove the handcuffs “as a professional courtesy,” according to a police report, and said the situation “would have played out different” had Wheatley been an Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officer rather than a district officer. The athletic director confirmed to Wheatley that Jordan was a teacher, and Jordan was able to get his ID out of his pocket for Wheatley to see. He told Wheatley to let go of his shirt, and the officer put Jordan in handcuffs shortly after that. Jordan told Wheatley he was embarrassed and felt harassed. There is a delay between the audio and video, making it difficult to match the audio to what the video shows. That’s resisting,” the officer said at one point.

“Whenever an officer tells you to do something, you tensed up. Wheatley said he was detaining Jordan “right away,” and the video shows him pull Jordan’s shirt over his shoulder and down his arm. The video starts after Jordan tells Wheatley he’s a teacher.
