City man beaten by VPD Nazis for not having his
papers!
Vancouver Sun
Tuesday, January 11, 2005
CREDIT: Peter Battistoni, Vancouver Sun - TSUNAMI SURVIVAL PARTY ENDS IN MAN'S ARREST: Tsunami survivors Luke Norman and fiance Erin McNally are still nursing wounds from their ordeal in Thailand.
A Vancouver man who survived the tsunami that devastated parts of Thailand says he was arrested and assaulted by police Sunday night after a "thank God we're alive" party because he did not have any identification. Luke Norman's passport and other identification were washed away by a massive wave that hit his bungalow on the island of Phi Phi, but he and his fiance, Erin McNally, managed to return to Vancouver on Saturday. On Sunday night, Norman's welcome-home party turned sour when he says two Vancouver police officers showed up at his building, became confrontational, slammed his head against the wall, knocked him to the ground, kicked him, handcuffed him and locked him up overnight.
"There's no way people should be
able to pull the crap that those guys pulled," Norman, 34, said Monday in a
phone interview. Norman, who is training to be a broker at Canaccord Capital,
was released from police custody Monday at about 11 a.m. and was not charged
with any offence. He plans to file a complaint with the police department.
Vancouver police Const. Anne Drennan said all complaints are investigated and
taken seriously, but gave a slightly different version of events, based on the
attending officers' reports.
Drennan and Norman both agree that police were called to Norman's West End
apartment building at about 11:30 p.m. Sunday. Several complaints were made
about snowballs being thrown from the 12th-floor balcony of Norman's next-door
neighbour's apartment, where the party was being held. After that, Drennan's
and Norman's accounts are somewhat different.
Norman said he went to bed at about 10:30 p.m., because he was jet-lagged and
McNally had a 12th surgical procedure scheduled Monday to repair three of her
fingers badly damaged in the tsunami. He said he was woken an hour later by
McNally's visiting aunt, who told him the police were at his neighbour's door.
Norman waited until he thought the officers were gone and said he then then
went to talk to his neighbour.
He said he picked up a beer can that was left in the hallway and was walking
to toss it in the garbage when he noticed the door to the stairwell was ajar.
"I walk up to that door to close it and there's two police officers standing
there," he said in a thick New Zealand accent. "They jumped out at me and
said, 'You've got an open vessel of alcohol in a public place, that's
illegal.'
"And I said, 'I don't think this is a public place. . . Besides, I just
picked it up off the floor." Norman said one of the officers called him a
liar, but he was ready to leave the situation and go back to bed. "I turned
around and threw [the beer can] in the garbage and they grab me and go, 'Where
are you going, what are you doing?' he recalled. Drennan said Norman, and
later his brother, were both "intoxicated, belligerent and aggressive with
police." According to Norman, it was the officers who then got aggressive.
"And then there was this surreal thing, like something you'd see in a movie,
instead of being good cop, bad cop, they were both bad cops, and they started
pushing me from one to the other, going, 'Why are you bumping
into me, why are you bumping into me?'"
Norman admitted he had consumed about eight beers earlier that night, but
insisted he was not confrontational or rude. After the officers had bumped
Norman around for a bit, he said, they demanded to see identification, to
which he responded that all his ID was washed away two weeks earlier by the
tsunami. Drennan said the officers initially had a "discussion" with Norman
about drinking in public, asked him for identification, and stopped him when
he walked away from them. "Of course, they thought I was lying [about the ID],
so I tried explaining," he said.
By this point, Norman's brother was in the hallway, as was the neighbour who
threw the party. The officers grew increasingly agitated and Norman said they
started "manhandling" him. "I said, 'This is bull----, this is ridiculous, I'm
not staying here for this. You haven't arrested me, I'm walking back to my
room.'" It was then the officers told Norman he was being arrested for "not
producing identification," and pushed his head into the wall, he said.
"They took me by the hair, and I've got about three or four witnesses for
this, and smashed my head into the wall, which made my knees buckle. They got
me on the ground, kicked me on the ground and handcuffed me." Drennan said
Norman was arrested because he was in the hallway with open liquor, he tried
to walk away from police, and refused to produce identification. She also said
he refused to take his hands out of his pockets when the officers
were trying to handcuff him.
At one point, Norman said his brother ran back into the apartment and grabbed
the Dec. 30 edition of The Vancouver Sun, which featured a front-page picture
and story about Norman and McNally's narrow escape from the tsunami.
He tried to show it to the officers to prove his brother was who he said he
was, but the officers wouldn't listen, Norman said.
Source: http://www.canada.com/vancouver/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=2e44ba99-7ace-47a9-9baf-423daabbe37e
Vancouver Police assault BC Lion with Taser
VPD shoot man on ground. Would they give you the same leeway in defending yourself?
Independent witnesses say man was executed.
Couple Assaulted, Home Ransacked, Arrested For Accidentally Dialing 911
North Shore News | November 23, 2006 Joanna Habdank
NORTH VANCOUVER - A North Vancouver couple has complained to District of
North Vancouver council and said they will sue the North Vancouver RCMP after
officers responded to their hang-up 911 call by breaking down their door, making
a forceful arrest and jailing them overnight when the couple refused to allow a
house-search.
The RCMP said, however, that in this case, federal policy commands a home-check,
designed to ensure public safety.
Chief still covering for his gang of thugs, despite obvious media spin.
Chief hiding the identity of Vancouver Police hoodlums running rampant
within this department. [Click photo or header for larger scan]
Get into an accident? The VPD think you should be beaten for that......
Police blatantly assault men, then get angry that firefighters didn't join in, but
verbally "harassed" them. Turns out the reason why was the two men were
firefighters who had just been in an auto accident. Ooops!
With this police department, everyone is fair game, nobody is safe...
Frankly we'd like to know why the firefighters didn't help rescue their brothers from
this obvious assault; though its probably just an example of how brainwashed and
intimidated we've all become. Under the law, however, we have an absolute right
to intervene if we witness ANY assault, and are justified and authorized to use ANY
force reasonably necessary.
That is the law of the land, and it can not be broken........
We think if anyone is justifiably upset, it's the firefighters. The firefighter, and his son,
were both attacked after they were injured as passengers in a motor vehicle accident.
Police were apparently so eager 'to get in on the fun' that they crashed their cars into
each other to get to the scene; perhaps because they were afraid the firefighters were
going to protect their brothers from a vicious and unprovoked attack. [Click above
pics for two videos of this incident]
The police now have the unmitigated gaul to charge both the father and son with
"assaulting a police officer". Once again proving that these VPD parasites will charge
you even for blocking their blows, so one might wonder what a person has to lose in
doing your utmost to defend yourself with appropriate force.
Now the VPD is trying to cut a 'behind closed doors' deal with the top brass of
Vancouver's fire department, in order to keep their members obedient to VPD wishes.
How much more of this sort of behaviour is the public going to take before they realize
this department (and most others) have become enemies of the police, and must reassert
their right to appropriate defence of themselves and their property?
Surely its time for the public to sac their police services and replace them with their
own responsible servants?
This is easily done, via election of sheriffs and/or similar volunteers who are
knowledgeable enough to enforce our common law in a just and lawful manner.
Such a move could only be a step up from the so-called service we are now getting,
where we actually have to be more afraid of the police than the criminals we thought they
gave an oath to protect us from.
[Now see our page on Police Crashes..... ]
Cop arrests Fire Fighter who is attending victim of crash.
There have been numerous deaths from the use of tasers by police. Such as the
examples below:
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N.B. police probe Taser death The RCMP is investigating the death of a 34-year-old man who collapsed and died after Mounties used a Taser gun to subdue him. Cpl. Terry Kennedy, a spokesman for the RCMP in Moncton, said Friday that officers from Fredericton have taken over the investigation into the death of Kevin Geldart, 34, of Riverview, N.B. Geldart died after Moncton RCMP officers shocked him with a Taser gun, a high-voltage stun device, at a bar in Moncton late Thursday. "When our members arrived, they were confronted by a man who was six-foot-six and about 300 pounds," Kennedy said. "He was aggressive and violent towards the members. As a result, the Taser was used to control the gentleman." Kennedy said officers handcuffed Geldart after he slumped to the floor. It was then that they realized he was unconscious and unresponsive. An ambulance was called, but Geldart was pronounced dead on arrival at hospital. Kennedy said Geldart earlier had gone missing from a local psychiatric unit. The RCMP investigation will include an autopsy to determine the cause of death. "Obviously, we want to find out exactly the cause of death," Kennedy said. The Taser gun is becoming the subject of intense public and police scrutiny as a result of the growing number of deaths associated with its use. At an inquest earlier this month in London, Ont., Dr. Jim Cairns, Ontario's deputy chief coroner, said that nine Canadians have died since 2003 shortly after being shot by a police Taser. _____________________________ Taser Death Ruled a Homicide Today, the Lucas County coroner ruled the death of Jeffrey Turner a homicide. Turner was the man who died after being stunned by a taser approximately nine times in January. The coroner also determined that the shocks delivered by the arresting Toledo police officers were not the direct cause of death. He attributed that to Turner's pre-existing heart condition, specifically hypertension, coupled with the taser shocks and use of force by the employees at the jail. While the death has been ruled a homicide, it will be up to county prosecutors to bring charges against those involved. That has not yet happened. The coroner says more research needs to be done on the link between taser use and sudden death.
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