Entry 12

Video of cellblock police assault against Toronto man made public

  Jennifer Pagliaro

Recently a video capturing four Toronto police officers assaulting a man while he is in a cell block. The video had been kept a secret but is now out for the public to see. When Justice Donna Hackett found out that the four police officers had lied about the attack on Curtis Young she knew that there were two videos crucial to finding out the truth.
Curtis Young arrived at a police station in Scarborough after being picked from sleeping in a bus stop drunk and possessing a bag of marijuana. In the video at the police station Young is complaining about his swollen eye and how they had punched him in the face. Which was ignored by the judge in court. The officers brought him into a holding cell where they were on top of him for 7 minutes and when they get of Young is on the ground motionless. Later paramedics arrived on the scene to access Young.

It is truly awful that officers think that they have the right to do this. The suspect was doing nothing to provoke the officers to begin attacking them but they decided to do any way. Police these days have too much power over civilians which leads to violence similar to this.