Elizabeth Bogan was scrolling through her Facebook feed Friday afternoon when she came across a video of a Eugene police officer striking a man in the head as he was face-down on the ground while another officer held the man’s arms behind his back to handcuff him.

Bogan couldn’t see the man’s face but had an uneasy feeling that it might be her 33-year-old son, Jared Anders Roy.

Her son lives with her but he hadn’t returned from the St. Vincent de Paul Society station where he went to visit with friends and have lunch.

When her daughter spotted the orange Nike swoosh on the man’s shoes, mother and daughter knew it was Roy.

Now, Eugene’s independent police auditor is investigating the force used on Roy, which sent him to the hospital with a black eye, bruises to his face and Taser strikes to his back, according to the hospital records and photos.

Roy was later booked Friday into the Lane County Jail on allegations of resisting arrest, disorderly conduct and trespass and then released on bail.

According to Eugene police, Roy was uncooperative and fought with officers for more than three minutes before they could handcuff him while backup officers were on the way.

Rebecca Bourne, a witness across the street, recorded the encounter on her cellphone.

Bourne said her dogs started barking about 12:47 p.m. Friday, alerting her to the chaos and she started shooting video.

“He looked to be fully restrained while being struck,’’ Bourne said. “Personally, I feel the officers went too far. If he wasn’t being still, it was due to the Taser in his back. … I couldn’t believe what I was seeing.’’

Roy’s mother said she wishes the specialty response team CAHOOTS would have responded before police got to Roy. CAHOOTS is an arm of Eugene’s public safety system that stands for Crisis Assistance Helping Out On The Streets and provides medical and behavioral health services.

Bogan said her son apparently suffered a mental health crisis at St. Vincent de Paul.

A St. Vincent de Paul official said Roy went to the agency’s Eugene Service Station grounds “in an altered and heightened state.’’

His behavior in the lunchroom concerned staff and other clients, said Mary Dawn Elkington, executive assistant for St. Vincent de Paul. At one point, he fell and then later dashed out one of the doors. He ran through the property and ran up the street erratically, according to Elkington.

Staff called CAHOOTS and police, but police contacted Roy first.

Police said they got a call about a disorderly man refusing to leave, throwing items to the ground and disrupting others trying to use the services at the Eugene station. St. Vincent DePaul provides homeless adults with food, day shelter, clothing, laundry, showers and other supplies.

When police arrived, they learned Roy had already left and an officer spotted him walking west in the 2900 block of Elmira Road. Roy was uncooperative as officers tried to arrest him, police said.

The video shows Roy on the ground, surrounded by three officers. One of the officers strikes Roy in the face while another on Roy’s left fires a stun gun at his back. A third officer holds Roy’s wrists behind his back in an effort to put them in handcuffs

Paramedics soon arrived at the scene, placed Roy on a stretcher and took him to Sacred Heart Hospital in downtown Eugene, according to the video, police and his mother.

Hospital records obtained by his mother and shared with The Oregonian/OregonLive identified the reason for Roy’s visit: “Assault Victim’’ and “Altered Mental Status.’’

Bogan said her son was walking to his sister’s home when police approached him. He told his mother that he drank a can of beer and took Valium earlier, Bogan said.

At the time of his arrest, Roy was on probation for a 2018 burglary conviction.

Bogan said the video of her son’s arrest has shaken her and she wonders how it will affect him. But she’s thankful that he wasn’t more seriously hurt.

“I don’t understand why they’re punching him in the face like that and Tasing him in his back while they’ve got his hands behind his back,’’ she said. “I don’t want this to happen again to anyone else.”

Under the Eugene Police Department’s use-of-force policy, an officer is justified in using physical force only under a reasonable belief that it’s necessary to make an arrest, for self-defense or to defend another from imminent use of physical force.

In determining what’s reasonable force, the department considers the conduct of the person confronted, their age, size, strength, the number of officers present , the influence of drugs or alcohol on the person’s physical or mental capacity and the degree to which a suspect has been effectively restrained.

-- Maxine Bernstein

Email at mbernstein@oregonian.com; 503-221-8212

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