‘A chilling image’: Judge rules on appeal in Meridian man’s viral arrest

‘A chilling image’: Judge rules on appeal in Meridian man’s viral arrest

An Ada County district judge has affirmed a jury’s decision to find a Meridian man guilty in a 2024 encounter with police that went viral after the arresting officer knelt on the man’s neck.The decision comes a year after 23-year-old Samson Allen appealed his guilty verdict of resisting and obstructing police. Judge Gerald Schroeder of Idaho’s 4th Judicial District on May 22 affirmed that Allen broke the law when he refused to comply with then-M…