Video of Police Assault on Toronto Man Surfaces
By Jennifer Pagliaro
A recent video has surfaced capturing four Toronto
police officers brutally assaulting a male prisoner in a cell block. The video,
kept secret until now, is currently available for the public to view. The video
shows four police officers brutally beating a man, Curtis Young, for seven
whole minutes, and at the end once they get off of him he is lying unconscious
on the floor of the cell block. Young had arrived at the station just moments
before his beating as he was taken into custody for being drunk in public and
in possession of a bag of marijuana. The camera footage shows Young being
dragged by the police officers, after his arrival at the police station, into a
cell block and beaten mercilessly by the officers for no apparent reason.
Paramedics later arrived on scene to come to the aid of Young.
I think that this is a disgusting abuse of power by
these four “police officers”. They beat this man for no reason other than
because they could, and that is absolutely uncalled for and unjust. It may have
been understandable for the officers to use physical violence if the man was
being violent towards them but he wasn't in any way, and even if he was this
does not warrant a seven minute beating by four police officers. These officers
should be revoked of their badges and charged with assault and abuse of power.
I hope that these men are sent to jail for what they've done, and that they get
a taste of their own medicine whilst there.
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