The American Tatera was sent to a psychiatric hospital for compulsory treatment.

The Moscow Meshchansky court has sent Joseph Tater, a US citizen accused of assaulting a metropolitan police officer, to compulsory treatment in a psychiatric hospital. Kirill Marinenko, the American's lawyer, told Izvestia about this on April 14.

"The Meshchansky court has released Joseph Tater from further serving his sentence. He has been assigned compulsory medical measures (MMMH) in a specialized type of intensive care hospital," Marinenko said.

The incident occurred on August 12, 2024. The hotel staff refused to check Tater in due to his lack of a migration card and aggressive behavior. He waved his arms and used obscene language in both Russian and English. After the brawler was taken to the duty station, he continued to behave aggressively, pushed and hit an Interior Ministry employee. As a result, the American was detained for an administrative offense, a criminal case was opened against him under Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Use of violence against a government official)" and detained.

At the end of March this year, a US citizen was released from a pre-trial detention center in Moscow on his own recognizance. After that, he was forcibly hospitalized in the psychiatric hospital named after Nikolai Alekseev. Later, on April 14, it was reported that the court would consider Tater's case behind closed doors.