No clue what happened or why this individual became the focus of police attention, but the visuals are pretty clear. It raises a question, however. Are all perps so darn tough that they require so many police officers to beat them at once?
Wouldn’t just one or two be enough to teach a lesson to a person who is laying on the ground in a submissive position? Or do cops just do such a really awful job beating people that it takes so many? Just asking.
Apologies for the background music. Inappropriate and unhelpful.
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The beating victim is a teenager, Alexis Vadeboncoeur, who had just robbed a Montreal pharmacy with a pellet gun. Four officers have been suspended with pay after video revealed that their arrest reports weren’t, ummm, precisely factual. A civil suit has been filed.
Well remember when a suspect viciously assaults an officer’s boot with his face, it could hurt their toes. So you get 4 so you can take time off to let you foot heal.
Face down and spread-eagled is the textbook example of somebody who’s clearly resisting arrest.
On the news it was reported that the cops kicked him in the groin repeatedly and a female officer grabbed his testicles for extra torture.
The police chief keeps saying we have to wait for “All the facts”.
Sure. But Quebec cops are notorious for thuggery.
I can hear it now: “Stop resisting, eh?”
Emotions are just the poorly reasoned extensions of instinct. Why do chickens mercilessly kill birds from other flocks? There is very little difference between anger/fear in humans and the fight or flight duality in other species. Parents that lovingly send their children off to school in the morning can beat them to death after a tough day at the office.
Logic, reason and rational limits often disappear during accidents and disasters in the civilian world. Thankfully most of the results are positive and we end up with “ordinary citizens” rescuing strangers from burning wrecks.
The problem with today’s so called “law enforcers” is that they are just doing their jobs. To them the words “serve and protect” are reserved for a few close friends. Citizens are at best “suspects” and at worst “the enemy” that … killed one of their blue family line.
If this had been a bank robbery a century ago, I doubt the townsfolk would have waited for the circuit judge or justice. The so called victim is obviously not innocent and his actions are similar to a dog/cat/child that knows it has committed an offense that will lead to some well deserved punishment in the wood shed.
If this police action (in the War on Drugs) were are real war with real or imagined enemies and you were the King, Lord and High Executioner what “rules of engagement” would you suggest? How many of your soldiers would you sacrifice to protect the indiginous non-combatents?
Those are neither easy questions nor are there simple one size fits all answers. I do not condone the officers actions but simply ask how would you address a burglar that had just assaulted your loved ones? Hmmm … now that the shoe is on your foot getting in a few licks of street justice may not seem so crazy.
You ask the exact wrong question.
Depends on whether or not Im guilty?
See “Bust Gone Too Far” LC-supra or try Langguth vs McCuen (Ark circa 1992 – 30 F.3d 138.)
With pay, of course.
When I was suspended from a job [for having a parking fenderbender in the van] I was docked pay for the day.
They are, I suspect free to work their 2nd jobs while “suspended..”
It’s obvious that these cops are having FUN beating a helpless civilian. It’s not just Canadian cops, either; I’ve seen this all over the US, and there are more tales from Europe, and never mind Asia and Africa. What this proves is that POWER CORRUPTS, no matter where or when.
–Leslie <;)))>< Fish