By Jim Clark

While on walking patrol in the Davis Square area last week, a police officer noticed an altercation taking place between a man and two women in Statue Park.

As the officer approached, one of the women was reportedly heard to say, “You don’t talk to my wife like that.” According to the officer’s report, the man responded by making vulgar anti-lesbian statements.

One of the women was holding the other one back from striking the man, according to reports.

The officer got between the feuding parties and eventually settled them down. As the women walked away towards the bus stop they reportedly called the man, later identified as Edwin Grossett, of Boston, ignorant.

Grossett reportedly answered back and the officer told him that he needed to stop. Grossett said that he wasn’t saying anything and that the officer needed to get the women away from him. The officer replied that the women had already left and that he was only trying to agitate.

A short time later, Grossett reportedly followed where the women had left, down College Ave., in an apparent attempt to catch up with them. The officer, who had remained nearby, followed after Grossett in an attempt to intercept him.

The officer reportedly found that one of the women had thrown her ice cream at Grossett when he approached them again and yelled at them. Again, one of the women was being held back by her companion from striking Grossett.

Backup was called in by the officer, and an ice cream wearing Grossett was placed under arrest for disorderly conduct.