A drunken Athens man was arrested early Friday after he apparently tried to deflate the tire of a downtown police officer’s bicycle.
Athens-Clarke police said the officer responded to the area of North Jackson and East Washington streets about 2 a.m. after someone told him of a group of people fighting there.
The officer parked his bicycle in front of a bar where the altercation began, and as he approached the group he saw one man push another, then a woman approach another man who she kneed in the groin then struck him in the face, police said.