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    Police allegedly beat innocent East Vancouver man

    CBC – Fri, 20 Jan, 2012
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    Vancouver police are caught in an embarrassing situation in which they're accused of beating up a man who they thought was a bank robber. Not only was he not the right guy — it turned out no bank had been robbed.

    Manjit Singh says he had just taken his garbage out the curb of his home near Joyce Street and Kingsway when a police approached him.

    “He pushed me on the fence,” said Singh, 51. “He said, ‘RCMP, RCMP.’”

    Other officers then swarmed him and started beating him up, Singh said.

    "One guy put the knee on my neck, one guy put the knee on my legs,” “They start kicking me … powerful kicks. Left, right, left, right."

    Singh's wife says an officer told her that Singh had just committed a crime.

    "He said he just robbed two banks and he dropped something off over there and I said no he just dropped off the garbage there," said Sarita Shankaran.

    The Vancouver Police Department acknowledges that six of its police officers were investigating a possible bank robbery in the area when Singh was confronted.

    Another man was eventually apprehended, but was later released after police realized no offence had actually been committed.

    As part of an internal police investigation into what happened, three officers arrived at Singh's house Friday but Shankaran turned them away.

    She said the family is seeking legal advice.

    Vancouver police are not hesitating to admit the error.

    "We're sorry, we've apologized yesterday and we've apologized today,” said spokeswoman Const. Jana McGuinness. “Chief [Jim] Chu called and spoke to the family on the phone last night."

    The case appears to be similar to an incident in 2010 when South Vancouver resident Yao Wei Wu was pulled out of his home and roughed up by two plainclothes officers who mistook him for another man who had allegedly assaulted his wife.

    "I need justice now,” said Singh, who suffered cuts, bruises and apparent trauma. “Why they attack on one innocent guy? They can talk to me nicely."

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    • christ_never...
      christ_never...  •  1 month 2 days ago
      My brother is an inspector in the RCMP. He told me once that the problem was recruitment, that it was hard to get suitable candidates to apply.

      That is true, but suitable candidates will not apply while the war on drugs continues. Too many of the best young people are not interested in participating in attacks on drug users who are otherwise exceptional citizens, and none of those otherwise exceptional citizens will apply while drug testing would get them fired.

      Prohibition, like any other unjust law, brings the law enforcers into disrepute. That is why we get only the willingly violent rednecks applying to be cops.

      Each and every officer involved will be transfered to the traffic division, which I am informed is where all the screw ups go.
    • many owls
      many owls  •  1 month 3 days ago
      another huge law suit..
      EL ARQUERO OSCURO, how did you get by security?
    • *under_a_wondering_star*
      *under_a_wondering_star*  •  Abbotsford, British Columbia  •  1 month 1 day ago
      Okay well first off I think it's disgraceful, but not surprising, what hit my funny bone was Mr. Singh suggesting they should have talked to him nicely, lol hehehehe has anyone ever had a cop talk to them NICELY. These robots are trained to dominate and intimidate. The hearing has been programmed to shut down too, THEY DON"T HEAR YOU, when you smile and say " I didn't do anything" I used to respect them, I even had 2 friends in the Kelowna detachment, but that was years ago before they started hiring these arrogant wannabe gangstas. On the flip side I think Mr. Singh has obviously shown his true and not entirely unexpected ilk by denying investigators, and referring to a lawyer for a very profitable outcome. So really shame on both sides.
    • Banned Thought
      Banned Thought  •  1 month 2 days ago
      don't you love how they qualify the statement 'innocent' man. As if its ok for the police to assault anyone. The sense of entitlement the Vancouver police has, is outrageous. This all starts from the top and the permissive law breaking culture set by the chief of police. The city must call for this chiefs resignation, and the prosecution of those who assualted this citizen. Its time we held the Vancouver police to some standard of accountablity for their criminality.
    • Slewshark
      Slewshark  •  1 month 2 days ago
      That is what happens when you have armed thugs with the IQ of a dead bird trying to enforce the law.

      There is something very wrong when you can't take your own garbage out without six other pieces of garbage with cop uniforms on assaulting you.
    • recce
      recce  •  1 month 2 days ago
      Oh did they ever pick on the wrong guy. This guy smells MONEY. And he will probably get it.
    • The ANTI-SUPERHERO
      The ANTI-SUPERHERO  •  1 month 3 days ago
      First of all, NOBODY who lives in Vancouvers East end is innocent. Singh..eh?! Well, it sounds like this guy got involved in a game of hide and SIKH!! They started kicking me, LEFT! RIGHT!... What a pussy. If he does not like Canadian justice then he should go back to his natural habitat, get out of Canada and go back to the PUNJAB!! Foreign devil. And you other foreign devils who are reading this, TAKE OFF, eh?!
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