[ql06] Re: CRIMINAL: Police misconduct
- From: Steve Kennedy <2srk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: ql06@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 08:23:13 -0500
Kenneth Campbell [QL06] wrote:
>A videotape is at the centre of allegations that a 21-year-old man
>charged with assaulting a Toronto police officer was himself the victim
>of an unprovoked punch by an officer during an early morning fracas
>outside a doughnut shop.
>
>The videotape is now in the hands of city police internal affairs
>investigators.
>
>The recording made by Ottawa tourists last Aug. 4 of the incident
>outside a Tim Hortons outlet on Albion Rd. near Highway 27 has just been
>released by the criminal lawyer representing Said Jama Jama.
>
>
>
Let this be a lesson to all of you - don't get between a hungry cop and
a doughnut shop.
Seriously though, Jama Jama may have been well within his rights to
shove the cop if he was under serious apprehension of death or bodily
harm CCC ss. 34, 35. Given the Toronto force's record of violence
against black people this may well have been the case.
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