Somerville Man Calls Cop Racial Slur In Davis Square Arrest: PD

SOMERVILLE, MA — A Somerville man was arrested early Sunday morning following an altercation outside a Davis Square bar, police said. Jacob Sylvester, 20, tried leaving the bar with a bottle of Corona and smashed a parked taxi's mirror when the doorman took it away from him, the doorman told police.

Officers were flagged down near the intersection of Elm Street and Chester Street and saw Sylvester running west on Elm Street, according to the police report. Officers followed him toward the Davis Square MBTA station and chased him on foot, police said.

When officers brought Sylvester to the ground, he called one officer a racial slur, called another black man passing by a racial slur and called women who walked by derogatory names, according to police. While Sylvester was running away from the police, several cars had to slam on their brakes to avoid hitting him.

"Sylvester continued to yell at people on the street for no reason, causing public inconvenience," police wrote in their report.

The taxi driver told police Sylvester broke his mirror for no reason. Sylvester was arrested and charged with malicious damage to a motor vehicle and disorderly conduct.