Raleigh police detective Christopher Andre Reed was fired after an arrest in Wake Forest on charges stemming from alleged conduct at a bar and during a later medical response, WRAL reported. The allegations are not findings of guilt. Reed had served as a detective since July 2016, according to the report.
Charges involve alleged conduct at a bar and during treatment
According to WRAL, Wake Forest police were called to the Carolina Ale House on Northpark Drive to remove a disruptive person. Warrants allege Reed grabbed the manager by the back of the head and pulled him down, then tried to punch two other people. The report also says Reed was later found on Capital Boulevard, where he was allegedly blocking traffic; after he sustained cuts jumping a barbed-wire fence, a paramedic responded to treat him. Warrants allege Reed kicked the paramedic in the groin.
WRAL reported charges including disorderly conduct, intoxicated and disruptive behavior, multiple assaults, and resisting, delaying and obstructing justice. The allegations include conduct involving an officer and a paramedic. The report said Reed was being held at Wake County Jail on a $20,000 bond.
Department review is a separate accountability question
Raleigh police said they would conduct an internal affairs review of the circumstances surrounding Reed’s arrest, WRAL reported. The department’s 2023 Professional Standards report says its Internal Affairs Unit receives, processes, assigns and supervises investigations of alleged misconduct or criminal conduct involving department members. Department policy also says video reviews may occur during organizational-integrity, criminal and administrative investigations. Neither source establishes how the review in Reed’s case relates to the criminal proceedings or what it will conclude.
A separate Raleigh case provides a limited comparison, not evidence of a broader pattern. ABC11 reported that former officer Ryan Greathouse was arrested and accused of an off-duty assault involving his ex-girlfriend and her boyfriend at a Raleigh home on April 12. That case involved different alleged conduct and a different location from Reed’s Wake Forest arrest; the two incidents alone do not establish a trend.
The emergency-personnel statute has specific conditions
North Carolina General Statutes § 14-288.9 covers assaults on emergency personnel when a declared state of emergency exists or a riot is occurring or imminent in the immediate vicinity, according to the North Carolina General Assembly. The available account does not establish whether either condition applied in Reed’s case, so the paramedic allegation alone does not show that this statute applies.
