Olympic Boxer Damien Hooper: facing charges.. Source: News Limited
CHAMPION boxer Damien Hooper has been charged with seriously assaulting a police officer after a weekend incident outside a nightclub in Dalby.
The 20-year-old, who lives in Toowoomba, was an Olympian last year but did not make it through to the quarter-finals.
His Olympic campaign was marred by a run-in with authorities when he showed up to a match wearing a T-shirt with an Aboriginal flag on it. He later apologised for breaching protocol.
Police were called just after 2am yesterday to the Mirage nightclub in Dalby. Hopper allegedly dropped his pants and exposed himself to officers and spat in a male officer's face as police struggled to load him into a car and take him away.
Hooper spent the rest of the morning in the watchhouse and was charged with wilful exposure, assaulting or obstructing police and seriously assaulting police.
He is due in Dalby Magistrates Court on February 19.
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