Five people have been charged with serious assault after three police patrol officers were brutally attacked, with one being female officer being choked on a suburban Brisbane street.
Two officers spoke to the group in Osborne Street, Mitchelton shortly before midnight after they had been asked to leave a nearby pub.
Police say the group became hostile and attacked a 35-year-old female senior constable, who was choked until she almost lost consciousness.
The group also assaulted a 36-year-old male colleague, as well as a 25-year-old female constable who arrived as part of a back-up patrol.
All three officers were taken to St Andrews Hospital for treatment to non-life-threatening injuries.
Three men and two women, aged between 23 and 31, have each been charged with two counts of serious assault, and will face Brisbane Magistrates Court on Monday.
