The first police officer to arrest a US president
As Donald Trump becomes the first former US president to face criminal charges, BBC Reel explores the history of the first sitting US president to be arrested, Ulysses S. Grant.
General Grant, the 18th President of the United States, was known for his love of fast horses – and riding them around the streets of Washington DC, at speed.
And in 1872, that was exactly how he became the only sitting president in US history to be arrested while in office.
But who was the man who dared to arrested him?
Scripted and edited by Camelia Sadeghzadeh
Presented and animation by Dan John
Images & footage: Alamy, Getty Images, Library of Congress
