A lawyer yesterday compared an incident involving his client Troy Smith, who sustained serious injuries after a run-in with police, to that of Rodney King.Graveney Bannister alleged police had invented a story that they were attacked by Mr Smith “to cover up the excesses in their behaviour”.He claimed police did not ask questions or properly investigate before using force against his client, who sustained a broken nose, broken facial bones and a sprained jaw in the July 4 incident.Mr Smith has denied assaulting Pc Richard Geraghty causing bodily harm, resisting arrest and wielding an offensive weapon, namely a 2ft croquet stick.He has admitted to using offensive language during the incident.Pc Geraghty told Magistrates’ court Mr Smith had threatened him with a stick, poked him in the eye and threw a rock at him while he attempted to arrest him for violent behaviour.Mr Smith, 28, however, has accused the officer of pepper spraying, beating and Tasering him and leaving him with severe facial injuries.A police investigation found there was insufficient evidence to prosecute the officer.Yesterday Mr Bannister presented his closing arguments to the court and likened the case to the infamous incident involving Rodney King.Mr King was brutally beaten by officers in the Los Angelos Police Department (LAPD) in 1991 and a videotaped account of the attack was shown around the world.The incident resulted in raised tensions between the black community and the LAPD.Four officers were later tried, but acquitted; sparking the Los Angelos riots in 1992.Mr Bannister said: “This has an element of Rodney King because here you have a white man kicking a man when he goes to his house just to arrest him.“And after an alleged investigation my client is before the court. That is adding insult to injury because clearly Troy Smith was at the wrong place at the wrong time.“He went in assistance to his mother and had no intention of making a threat to the police. He made no threat to his mother and accidently hit her (with the stick)”He said his client never resisted the officers and added that Mr Smith “vehemently denied” thowing a rock at the police.This was supported by evidence from the defendant’s mother, Gina Robinson, who said there were no rocks in that location of thier home on Plaice’s Point Road in Pembroke, said Mr Bannister.“It is my respectful submission these three charges are only an attempt to cover up the excesses of the police and he should only be found guilty to the count he had pleaded guilty to.”Prosecutor Nicole Smith said all three charges could be stood up by witness evidence.Pc Geraghty’s testimony showed the defendant had a stick in his hands and intended to use it as an offensive weapon, she said.The assault charge was warranted because of the injury to the eye that the officer sustained, she said, referring to a medical report by a Health Department doctor.She also said the evidence from his mother should be taken “as a grain of salt” as a mother would do anything to protect the interests of her child and she had left the scene to tend to her injuries.According to Ms Smith, evidence by the defendant’s step father who witnessed the attack from a balcony, showed he was acting in an inebriated and erratic manner when police arrived to the scene.Mr Smith was even asked by his mother to calm down, she said.“Why did there happen to be a struggle on the bonnet of the car if he was compliant with the arrest by the police? Those are not the actions of compliant person at a scene.“The Crown submits it’s obvious that its case has been made out to the required standard in regard to counts one through three of this information.”Magistrate Khamisi Tokunbo adjourned his ruling until January 18.