High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Davis (born 1941) is a retired elementary school teacher and resident of New Orleans who was detained, arrested, and beaten by four police officers on October 9, 2005 on suspicion of public intoxication, with a video camera recording the entire event. Davis has denied intoxication; he resisted arrest by failing to allow himself to be handcuffed. The officers subsequently beat Davis during the arrest, which was filmed by the members of the Associated Press. A fifth officer was charged with assaulting an Associated Press producer.