Meghan Markle‘s relatives do not seem to give her a pause! One after another they do some acts which only bring shame to her name. This time it is the turn of a new member of her family.

It is her nephew, Thomas Dooley who is the son of her estranged half-brother from her father’s side, Thomas Markle Jr. Thomas Dooley was arrested on 28 September 2019 in Hollywood. The charges slapped on him were a misdemeanor and resisting arrest by the police officer.

Meghan Markle and the arrest of her nephew Thomas Dooley

Meghan Markle’s name is again dragged into a new legal soup. This time it is her nephew Thomas Dooley whom the Hollywood police arrested on 28 September 2019.

The police officer slapped a charge of felony resisting arrest on him. Initially, he was to be charged just with a misdemeanor but when he injured the knee of a police officer who was trying to detain him, this was changed to a single charge of felony resisting arrest.

Thomas, 28 was held in custody and the bail amount fixed as  25k. Later on, on 30 September 2019, he was released from jail.

Thomas Dooley and the whole incident of his arrest

TMZ has obtained a video of the incident which was supposedly shot by a passerby. The video is more than a minute long. Reports state that Thomas was walking up and down the street with only a small towel wrapped around his waist.

A source for law enforcement told TMZ that when the law authorities arrived on the scene, Thomas began to defiantly walk away from them. He was trying to evade the police officers and when they approached him, they heard that he was talking gibberish. He seemed to be under the influence of some prohibited drug.

The police officers arrested him and were going to charge him with a misdemeanor. But then, Thomas began screaming and tried to resist the arrest. The officers tried to pull him and put him into the standing police van. Eye witnesses said that in all this push-and-pull, the towel of Thomas fell off and he was completely naked.

He became more unruly and the police officers switched to plan B. They brought him out of the police vehicle they had pushed him into and strapped him to a gurney. The paramedics also arrived on the scene and treated him. He was then taken to a hospital.

What does the video of the incident show?

The one-minute-long video clip filmed by an onlooker shows the time when the police officers were taking Thomas away and pushing him into the car. Thomas was screaming multiple times in the video and was acting in an unruly way. The person who shot the film also has put in his verbal comments in the video. He says:

“And now he’s naked,”

The scene of the incident was near the Hollywood Hotel just north of Santa Monica Boulevard. The man continues:

“He’s completely naked. They’re loading him in quick. There’s a s–load of them. You can tell they’re sick of having to do this kind of s–.”

The man also reveals that there is a Los Angeles Police Department helicopter hovering overhead at that time. He further states:

“He does not want to go in that car,” 

Source: Entertainment Tonight