CEDAR RAPIDS — “To this day, I don’t know what we would have done,” Cedar Rapids police Officer Dave Zahner says. “He’s definitely the biggest dude I’ve ever arrested.”The dude in this case was the 7-foot-4, 540 pound hulking professional wrestler André “The Giant” Roussimoff.Zahner and other Cedar Rapids police officers working the U.S.
Andre The Giant Vs. The Cedar Rapids Police: 30 Years Later
Lee Hermiston, The Gazette (Cedar Rapids)
Fri, 10/18/2019 - 7:36am
Sections: u.s.
Topics: Iowa Linn County Cedar Rapids
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