By Jim Clark

Police officers were dispatched to the Burger King restaurant on Somerville Ave. last week on reports of a disturbance involving property damage.

While en route to the Burger King, dispatchers informed the responding officers that the suspect had been detained by an additional police unit and was being held at a Merriam St. location.

Upon arrival, the arresting officers were advised that the suspect, Temitope Olaleye, had made a spontaneous statement about the incident.

Olaleye reportedly told the officers that he had requested a free meal at the Burger King because he could not afford to buy one. According to Olaleye, the restaurant manager informed him that he could not comply with the request. Olaleye reportedly told police that he said, “Those racist spics couldn’t give me a meal, so I had to throw a rock through their window.”

One of the officers instructed Olaleye to place his hands on the hood of the police cruiser, but he reportedly refused to do so, saying, “I can’t do that because then I will have to take your life.”

The officer once again asked Olaleye to place his hands on the police cruiser so that he could be handcuffed for everyone’s safety, but he once again refused and said, “I am not going to do that, and if you put handcuffs on me I am going to kill you,” according to reports.

The officers managed to handcuff Olaleye, at which time he reportedly told them, “Prison can’t hold me forever, when I get out, I am going to find you and kill you.”

Olaleye was placed under arrest and transported for booking, charged with threat to commit a crime and malicious wanton defacement of property.

A follow-up questioning of the Burger King manager confirmed that Olaleye had ordered food but was unable to pay for it. When the food was refused to him he allegedly became angry and left, breaking a double paned door on his way out. He also reportedly broke a window by throwing rocks at it.