GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The Kent County Prosecutor's Office has dismissed the felony charge against Emran Sharifi, the 21-year-old whose arrest by Grand Rapids police in June drew national attention after cell phone video showed officers pulling him from a car.

Sharifi, 21, had been charged with assaulting, resisting or obstructing a police officer causing serious impairment of a body function. The charge stemmed from a June 19 traffic stop in which one officer's leg was broken when Sharifi was pulled from the vehicle.

Kent County Prosecutor Chris Becker said he reviewed the transcript of the preliminary hearing along with body-camera video before deciding to drop the charge.

"The body camera conversation with Officer Lee discussing attempting to achieve 20 arrests in a weekend is extremely problematic in moving forward with the R&O charge," Becker said in a statement. "It is entirely inappropriate to set some sort of goal for arrest over any period of time, and these statements call into question the validity of the arrest in this specific matter, and would make proving this charge beyond a reasonable doubt impossible."

Becker added that although the officer testified the comments about a bet and a number of arrests were meant as a joke, he did not believe that was a topic to be joked about.

"Based on the facts revealed at the preliminary exam, I have directed my APA to file a dismissal with the court," Becker said.

How the arrest unfolded

On June 19, Grand Rapids police initiated a traffic stop near Kalamazoo Avenue and Dickinson Street. The department said the driver had failed to properly use a turn signal.

Body camera video shows an officer approaching the stopped car and telling Sharifi, who was sitting in the passenger seat without a seatbelt, that he needed to provide his name. Sharifi, who said he was not driving, declined to give his name. Less than a minute later, after continued refusals, officers placed him under arrest.

Cell phone video captured officers attempting to take Sharifi into custody by pulling on his arms, legs and head. Sharifi braced his feet against the floor and his hands against the ceiling, refusing to leave the car. During a struggle that lasted about a minute, officers pulled Sharifi from the vehicle. As they fell backward and to the ground, Sharifi's body rolled onto the leg of one officer, breaking it.

A 'bet' between officers

At Sharifi's preliminary examination on Aug. 20 in 61st District Court, the prosecution argued that his refusal to provide identification and comply with the arrest was a "factual, proximate cause" of the officer's injury and that the case should go to trial.

The defense countered that the officers "acted unlawfully" and violated Sharifi's Fourth Amendment rights, and that they were trying to fulfill a bet. The defense played body camera video from after the arrest in which Grand Rapids police officer Richard Lee, who testified at the exam, was heard discussing a "quota" with other officers.

"We joked that we weren't going to get our quota," Lee said in the video. "He wants to get a number. He knew we were going to lose."

When another officer asked whether the "quota" was for one day or one weekend, Lee answered, "Three days. He wanted 20. Arrests?" the officer asked. "Yeah," Lee replied.

In another body camera video, Lee appeared to talk to the injured officer as he was loaded onto an ambulance.

"You did this because you knew you were losing," Lee said. "This is my way out," the injured officer appeared to respond. "This was your way out," Lee said.

The defense told the court, "This is what results from a culture of bets and quotas, and officers who treat policing as a contact sport."

Lee testified that the quota "wasn't a real bet."

GRPD did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the dismissal.