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DES MOINES, Iowa — The Des Moines Police Department has cleared an officer, who has previously been accused of using excessive force, of any wrongdoing when he cracked a man’s ribs during an arrest in March.

Officer Cody Grimes’ use of force was deemed appropriate since the suspect resisted the officer’s orders, the department announced Tuesday.

Police say Grimes used a knee-strike technique on Charles Edward Young, 61, after Young reportedly refused to put his hands behind his back during his arrest on March 20. Young was taken to Broadlawns, where doctors said he had two minor fractures in his rib cage.

Young called authorities to his apartment in the 1500 block of Grand Avenue to remove unwanted guests. However, since Young told the guests they could stay there, police couldn’t legally ask them to leave. Police say Young got combative and cursed at the officers.

As they were walking out, the officers say Young slammed the door, hitting Grimes in the foot so hard it left paint transferred from the door onto Grimes’ boots and uniform.

That’s when officers went back inside the home to arrest Young for assaulting a police officer and interference with official acts.

Officer Cody Grimes History

Officer Cody Grimes was fired from the Des Moines Police Department due to an arrest on domestic assault charges in 2013. The woman he was accused of assaulting says she had to move out of state because she was so scared of him.

“She had gone to his residence and she indicated to us that she was choked and thrown down a flight of stairs,” Sgt. Jason Halifax, of the Des Moines Police Department, said after Grimes’ arrest. He was reinstated to the Des Moines Police Department in January 2015.

In 2010, Grimes shot at a KCCI-TV news photographer mistaking him for a suspect.

The next year, Grimes beat groom Jake Twombly unconscious at Twombly’s wedding, breaking several bones in his face. This happened after Twombly reportedly pushed one of his groomsmen into an off-duty officer. Witnesses say Twombly was handcuffed when Grimes beat him.

“They just came running in through the entrance of the room. Hit me in the back of the head and I went down to the ground,” Twombly told Channel 13 in a 2014 interview.