Topless Woman 'Startled' Kid At Minnesota United Match: Cops

MINNEAPOLIS, MN — A local soccer fan is facing an indecent exposure charge after police said she refused to cover her bare breasts and startled a child during a Minnesota United match at TCF Bank Stadium Sept. 23. Just after 9 p.m. Saturday, the University of Minnesota police responded to a report of a shirtless woman in the stands at section 127. According to the criminal complaint, police observed a woman exposing her bare breasts and later identified her by a North Dakota driver's license as Rose Marie Picklo.

Police said Picklo, holding a beer in one hand and filming the incident with a smartphone in the other,"repeatedly refused" to put her shirt back on. Picklo continued to argue with them even after police said she would be arrested if she did not put on a shirt, the complaint states.

Police say when two female officers came to arrest her, Picklo resisted by pulling her arms away, attempting to sit down, and refusing to walk. Two female officers and a male officer carried the her all the way to the processing center, after which she was transported to the Hennepin County Jail and booked.

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Officers say they later learned that a seven-year-old boy saw the Picklo while she was exposing her breasts. The child's mother told police that her son was "startled" and that she covered his eyes.

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