"Reasonable Force"
Better be careful, living in Vancouver. About opening the door to unwanted intruders. When you hear that knock on the front door, and peer out and see a uniformed police officer or two, perhaps it might be better to just not respond. Walk away. One naturally thinks of peace and security and safety, seeing uniformed police. It appears that those uniforms can camoflage thuggish-oriented temperaments.
Mr. Wu claims he was grabbed by one officer and beaten for ten to twenty minutes the minute he opened the door. The two police officers informed investigators that Mr. Wu refused to allow the officers into the house, that Mr. Wu shoved Constable Florkow and attempted to wrestle him to the ground.
Is that reasonable? Would a sole man resist the presence of two uniformed police officers? And for his trouble end up battered and bruised. That ten to 20 minutes Mr. Wu described as the length of time his ordeal took, might have been one-tenth that time, and would have seemed far longer. When the officers realized they had the wrong man he was taken to hospital.
Preferential to being taken to prison, admittedly. The Vancouver police asked the police in Delta to investigate the occurrence. Unsurprisingly, the Delta police Chief issued a written decision that concluded irrespective of having knocked at the incorrect door, the officers had acted "in good faith". They had reasonable grounds to believe Mr. Wu was their suspect and used "reasonable force" in arresting him.
Mr. Wu was not the man who was assaulting his wife in the downstairs apartment. The 911 call the woman placed with brought the two officers out to the home may not have specified the basement apartment. Hence the knock at the wrong door. Is it par for the course that police batter someone resisting arrest into insensibility?
If that's designated as "reasonable force", one shudders at the what "unreasonable force" might constitute.
"I was beaten by police for no reason at the door of my home. My family and I feel extremely disappointed and angry." Yao Wei WuThis was a sadly unfortunate misunderstanding; Mr. Wu was simply the wrong man at the right place at the wrong time. Police were looking for someone whom they intended to arrest, but it was not Mr. Wu. It was the resident who lived in the basement suite of the home. It was Mr. Wu who responded to the knock at the door. Question: do police regulations permit beating a suspect prior to arrest?
Mr. Wu claims he was grabbed by one officer and beaten for ten to twenty minutes the minute he opened the door. The two police officers informed investigators that Mr. Wu refused to allow the officers into the house, that Mr. Wu shoved Constable Florkow and attempted to wrestle him to the ground.
Is that reasonable? Would a sole man resist the presence of two uniformed police officers? And for his trouble end up battered and bruised. That ten to 20 minutes Mr. Wu described as the length of time his ordeal took, might have been one-tenth that time, and would have seemed far longer. When the officers realized they had the wrong man he was taken to hospital.
Preferential to being taken to prison, admittedly. The Vancouver police asked the police in Delta to investigate the occurrence. Unsurprisingly, the Delta police Chief issued a written decision that concluded irrespective of having knocked at the incorrect door, the officers had acted "in good faith". They had reasonable grounds to believe Mr. Wu was their suspect and used "reasonable force" in arresting him.
Mr. Wu was not the man who was assaulting his wife in the downstairs apartment. The 911 call the woman placed with brought the two officers out to the home may not have specified the basement apartment. Hence the knock at the wrong door. Is it par for the course that police batter someone resisting arrest into insensibility?
If that's designated as "reasonable force", one shudders at the what "unreasonable force" might constitute.
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