Police and other first responders converged on Greensboro Tuesday afternoon following a call of “officer down.” That communication often means an officer has been seriously injured.
That was, fortunately, not the case this week, according to Hale County Sheriff Mike Hamilton.
“The deputy is fine,” said Hamilton.
Once it became clear that the deputy, Kenneth Robertson, was not seriously injured, a second call went out advising responders that the situation was not an emergency.
Hamilton said the injury resulted from a traffic stop encounter with a woman he described as severely mentally ill. He said the woman “bumped” the deputy with her car, then fled the scene.
