Track Palin, the former Alaska governor’s eldest son, was ‘angry and intoxicated’ and ultimately ‘took off his shirt to fight’

Anchorage authorities announced on Thursday that they do not plan to press charges over a drunken street-brawl involving the family of former Alaska governor Sarah Palin.

The police also released a detailed report about the fracas, which occurred at a party at the house of Korey Klingenmeyer, on 6 September. Officers responded to a dispatch at “about 2244 hours” to a disturbance in which “about 20 people were involved.”

When Officers Justin Blake and John Daily arrived, Palin’s eldest son Track – who had blood around his mouth and on his hands, appeared to have an injury under his left eye and on his upper cheek, and wasn’t wearing a shirt – was being walked towards a long white limousine by several people, two of whom were Sarah Palin and her husband Todd.

Palin’s 23-year-old daughter Bristol, on whom Officer Blake said he “smelled the odor of alcohol”, was there as well.

From his statement, Track Palin – whom Officer Daily had a hard time getting to calm down because he was “angry and intoxicated” – the family were out celebrating Todd Palin’s birthday, and then decided to go on to another party at Korey Klingenmeyer’s house.

Track was “heavily intoxicated,” and at first acted belligerently toward police, but Sarah Palin told him to talk to Officer Daily.

Track told Daily that while they were at that party, some guys were “talking rudely” to his sisters, “making them cry,” and they decided to leave. He said that as they were on the way out a friend, Steven, was “sucker-punched” from behind. It was at this point, Track told Daily, that he “took off his shirt to fight.”

Brian Horschel, who was also at the party, told Daily that he had spoken to numerous people and had a good idea what had happened. According to Horschel, Track started a fight, and “got beat up.”

Klingenmeyer, at whose house all this happened, and who appeared to Daily to be only “moderately intoxicated,” told the officer that he was angry the Palins had shown up and were causing problems.

In what appears to be a separate altercation a few minutes later, Bristol Palin approached Klingenmeyer saying that she was going to “beat that girl’s ass.” Klingenmeyer – who the report describes as six feet tall and weighing 215 pounds – told Bristol that he “wasn’t going to have any of that here,” and that she should go home. Klingenmeyer told Daily that Bristol responded“who the fuck are you?” and added she would “kick his ass.”

“Korey told her to go ahead and punch him,” Horschel, who saw the event, told Daily, “and she punched him in the face.”

“Korey told her to hit him again on the other side of his face and she did so a few times before Korey finally stopped her. He said that he then sat her on her ass and told her to leave,” Daily wrote.

Klingenmeyer said that after the sixth punch, he grabbed Bristol’s fist, and pushed her away, and that was when she fell over. Three other witnesses corroborated Klingenmeyer’s account; a fourth, Matthew McKenna, described Bristol as “out of control.”

McKenna said that after that, he “went to Bristol, picked her up, and brought her from the yard to the street and put her down.” He said that at that point both Todd and Sarah Palin were there asking what had happened. He told them to leave, according to his statement to another responding officer, Ruth Adolf, but “nobody listened and yet another fight started.”

Bristol, whom Daily described as “heavily intoxicated and upset,” at first denied knowing who Klingenmeyer was, and then said that Klingenmeyer had “drug [sic] her across the lawn by her legs and was calling her a cunt and a slut.”

Daily reported that Bristol said she “didn’t know what else happened and didn’t have a clue whether she hit him or not.” In a separate interview, Bristol told Blake that Klingenmeyer “called her a ‘slut’ over and over,” that “someone then pulled her around on the grass by her feet,” and that someone stole her shoes and sunglasses.

Adolf spoke to Bristol’s sister Willow, who said that Klingenmeyer had assaulted Bristol, and that “an older lady pushed her.” She also said that “people were saying things like ‘fuck the Palins.’”

Adolf then went back to the house, but reported that Todd Palin came back to the driveway and confronted Klingenmeyer, “asking if he called his daughter a ‘bitch.’”

“Willow Palin also walked up and also got involved,” Adolf wrote, “flipping Korey off and getting loud.”

“We eventually separated everyone and the Palin family ended up leaving.”