Police pulled over a man in Roosevelt, New York because he allegedly did not have his 2 year-old correctly strapped into a car seat. Unfortunately, he also allegedly did not have a valid driver’s license, and now he faces charges of unlicensed driving and charges related to the child safety seat.

Oh yeah, he also faces two charges of second-degree assault, for alleged assaulting two police officers during the traffic stop. That’s where this gets, uh, weird:

Nassau County police said First Precinct officers stopped the 1994 BMW driven by [Jorge] Guevara as he drove with his three children on Nassau Road.

A license check then revealed that Guevara did not have a license, police said. Police said his license had been suspended at least three times — and was suspended at the time of the traffic stop.

Police said that, as he was being questioned, Guevara started to walk away. Officers attempted to stop him, but, police said, a struggle ensued.

Guevara suffered a facial contusion, police said. One officer suffered contusions, lacerations and a sprained finger. The other officer suffered several fractures to his hand.

Police said all three — Guevara and the two officers — were treated at a hospital and later released.

The story is from Officer.com, a law enforcement news site. I bolded the parts I found most interesting, because, well………how exactly does someone hurt another person’s hand with his face? It is an incredibly novel theory of the jurisprudence of criminal assault. If you’re going to commit an assault, most of us have other appendages at our disposal that work better. It is not clear if the first officer suffered contusions and lacerations somewhere other than his hand, so it may be a reporting issue.

There are at least two other possibilities besides the face-as-a-weapon theory:

– The story was misreported somehow.

– This is bullshit of epic proportions, and a guy has been charged with assault for being punched in the face.

Time will tell.

Photo credit: ‘Refrigerator magnet 1’ by Tweek on Flickr [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.