Prosecutors say that after the argument on May 5, 2018, at a St. Louis restaurant, Grooms drove there, in uniform, and handcuffed the man. Grooms then placed the man in his police SUV and drove him around, slamming on the brakes to throw the man around in the back seat, prosecutors said. After stopping in an alley, where he pushed the man into a fence and a dumpster while telling him that no one cared what happened to him, Grooms dropped the man off at the restaurant and released him, prosecutors said. He never filed a police report nor notified his department about the incident, according to prosecutors.