Man Gets Tasered by Two Police Officers at the Same Time

Two police officers tasered and pepper sprayed a man after he refused arrest and became belligerent during an alleged drunk driving incident.

Matthew Blonski, 25, of Caledonia, was arrested for drunken driving (second offense), fleeing an officer, operating a vehicle left of center, obstructing, and disorderly conduct.

A resisting arrest charge is also being referred to the Racine County District Attorney’s Office after he became belligerent in the hospital causing two police officers to use their Tasers on him at the same time.

According to a police report, at 1:45 a.m. Jan. 30, Officer Thomas Lakentric attempted to do a traffic stop on a 2000 Pontiac Grand AM on Charles Street and Silent Sunday, but Lakentric reported the Grand AM was not pulling over to the side of the road and didn’t pull over until the 6200 block of Charles Street.

Lakentric gave Blonski a field sobriety test, which he failed and Lakentric took Blonski into police custody. While Lakentric was driving to Wheaton Franciscan Hospital, Blonski started banging his head against the Plexiglas divider in the police squad and accused Lakentric of intentionally slamming on the brakes. But Lakentric reported that another officer was following him and knew this was not the case, according to the report.

Lakentric stopped the police squad and told Blonski “to knock it off.” Lakentric and the other police officer, Robert Lewis, were trying to put Blonski’s seatbelt on, which Blonski had gotten off. Once Blonski and Lewis got the seatbelt back on him, Lakentric continued driving to the hospital and Blonski started calling Lakentric various racial slurs. He also demanded that Lakentric tell him where he lived so that Blonski could come to Lakentric’s house and “shoot himself,” and that he would “spread his blood over” him. After they arrived at the hospital, Blonski refused to get out of the car and he told Lewis “He (Blonski) was being assaulted the whole way by the only black cop in Caledonia.”

Lakentric assisted Blonski out of the car, but Blonski pulled away and Lakentric told him he “wasn’t going to play with him” and threatened that if Blonski didn’t get out of the car he would be tasered. Blonski then got out of the car, but resisted walking into the hospital and continued to say that he was being “assaulted by a black male.” Speaking loudly and using profanity inside the hospital, Blonski was told to calm down. Blonski refused and he didn’t care that he was making a scene. Blonski then fell to his knees and refused to get up off the floor. Lakentric pulled out his Taser and kept pointing it at him until he walked into the lab for a blood draw.

Refusing to allow hospital staff to draw his blood, Blonski asked for an attorney and Lakentric told him “attorney’s were not allowed in the lab while blood was being given.” Blonski resisted and Lakentric sprayed him with pepper spray, but it didn’t faze him. Blonski “started shaking the entire gurney and tried to get up”

Lakentric tasered Blonski in the neck while Lewis tasered him in his upper leg.

Still, Blonski, who was reported to be a large man, continued to resist arrest and he kicked at Lewis. Two Racine Police officers then came to help Lakentric and Lewis and they eventually did the blood draw.

When Lakentric was taking Blonski to jail, Blonski apologized to Lakentric and he accepted Blonski’s apology. Blonski told Lakentric “he did not mean any of the comments he made prior to me releasing him.”

Blonski posted bond and had a responsible party take him home.