CBS Atlanta 46Woman says boyfriend attacked her, police call him the victim

Woman says boyfriend attacked her, police call him the victim

Pamela Anderson was in tears when she spoke with a CBS Atlanta news crew on Tuesday. Anderson was frustrated with the way Gwinnett County police handled a domestic violence situation she was involved in on Jan. 11.

Anderson said she called 911 after her then-boyfriend Edward McGee attacked her.

On the 911 recording Anderson sounds frantic and his breathing heavy.

Anderson told the operator, "He choked me. He hit me, socked me in my face and slammed me on the concrete and everything."

"The only thing that kept him from getting in was that third latch up there. I was upstairs on the phone with the dispatcher, contemplating if he came through that door to jump out my second window there," Anderson told CBS Atlanta.

When police arrived Anderson was bloody and bruised with scratches and a laceration on her neck. She showed CBS Atlanta pictures of her injuries and her broken door with visible foot prints on it.

But on the police incident report, McGee is listed as the victim and Anderson the suspect.

"And then for them to make him the victim and me the suspect, that's degrading. They violated me again just like he did," Anderson said.

CBS Atlanta's Tony McNary asked Corporal Jake Smith why Anderson was listed as the suspect.

"Just a procedural decision made by him (the officer who wrote the report). I can't really second guess that much," Smith said.

Smith said McGee told officers Anderson charged at him with a brick and scratched his car so he pushed her to the ground in self defense.

"Another officer may have decided differently, but this officer felt he couldn't determine satisfactorily who was the primary aggressor," said Smith.

Anderson said the officers didn't do their job.

"They threatened to arrest me. I said, 'Go ahead and arrest me this man is trying to take my life. If that's the only way I can have him arrested and someone will know, then arrest me,' and they wouldn't," said Anderson.

After the Jan. 11 incident Anderson went to the Gwinnett County Courthouse and obtained a protective order against McGee.

Despite her complaints, Gwinnett County police said the officer handled the situation the way he was supposed to.

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