Officers who beat up Mr Wu reassigned to admin duties
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Tags: police brutality, police violenceVancouver – The Vancouver Police Department today announced that one of the two officers who arrested Mr. Yao Wei Wu in a case of mistaken identity will be reassigned to administrative duties pending the outcome of an internal investigation. The Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner has been notified of this decision and continues to maintain contemporaneous oversight of the investigation.
The VPD has assigned a team of senior officers to this investigation and has utilized the services of a Cantonese speaking Sergeant to liaise with the Wu family.
Inspector Mario Giardini
Professional Standards Section
Vancouver Police Department
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What about the other cop? Back on the streets to endanger the residents of Vancover?
I want to ask one thing.
If I beat someone up, do I get admin duties pending the outcome of an internal investigation OR do I get arrested and sent to jail?
White man’s justice, huh?
i don’t think it’s about race here. it’s about the police becoming a privileged class
What if those two were East Indian cops beating up a White guy? Think about it.
More facts about white policiing in Canada:
“The RCMP cannot present anything thing to crown counsel which doesn’t have a very high likelihood of conviction. Meaning the evidence has to be overwhelming. Meaning lot’s of people in Canada are getting away with crime on a daily basis because of our leniency on criminals.
RCMP in BC don’t lay charges, they recommend charges (or peace bond) etc. The crown counsel will decide on whether or not to proceed with the recommendations. If you are being accused of something you didn’t do, you have 0.0000000000000001% chance of conviction in Canada. In fact, even if you are being accused of something you did do, it is still unlikely that you will be charged in court unless the evidence is overwhelming.”
Comments?
Check this out:
http://www.bet.com/News/National_Police_Accused_of_Brutality_in_Jordan_Miles_Beating.htm?wbc_purpose=Basic&WBCMODE=PresentationUnpublished&Referrer={0471DDF0-D0D8-48A8-9E30-ADD40CBE0269}
Surrey 6 allegation lowers RCMP morale
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/01/27/bc-rcmp-surrey-six-investigation.html
溫市警局周二公布，兩個涉及華裔市民吳耀偉遭警方毆傷事件的便衣警員，其中一人將調往文職部門，以等候市警的內部調查結果。事主吳耀偉不願對警方的調動置評。而這次事件也引起了本地華社人士積極關注，決定成立組織為事主籌款，在三方面提供協助。
溫市警局專業操守標準部門督察賈迪尼（Mario Giadini）表示，負責今次內部調查的都是高級警官，而負責與事主吳耀偉一家聯絡的，則是一位能說廣府話的警長。
他又表示，卑詩省警察投訴專員辦公室已經知道該警員調任文職的決定，並會繼續監管溫市警方的內部調查過程。
吳耀偉周二被記者問到有關警方這次調動的時候表示，調動是屬於警方內部的事情，他不想多加評論。
他說，目前仍然感到全身疼痛，晚上還是難以入睡，沒有甚麼心情，也未有聘請律師向警方索償，一切還是待康復後才去做。
事主全身痛 仍未能工作
而在警員打錯人之後，溫市警察局長朱小蓀和賈迪尼在當晚，就親自上門向吳耀偉道歉，並且承諾秉公處理徹查事件。
另一方面，吳耀偉無辜被打一事也引起華裔社區廣泛關注，不少人質疑警察到底憑甚麼理由可以隨便打傷無辜市民。鑑於吳耀偉受傷後不能工作，妻子心靈受創後也無法上班，一家人經濟陷入困境。一群華社活躍人士除了立刻進行家訪、瞭解吳氏的需要之外，更決定成立關注組，為吳耀偉一家發起籌款，設法為他討回公道。
成立關注組 誓討回公道
而據關注組發起人之一烈治文教育局學務委員區澤光表示，關注組主要就三方面向吳氏提供協助，包括應付目前經濟上的須要、創傷後的心理輔導和提供專家法律意見。不過關注組只是作為橋樑形式提供協助，而在周二時已經成功向銀行申請設立一個基金戶口，希望可以鼓勵市民捐款支持，首先解決吳氏經濟上燃眉之急。而長遠來說，關注組會幫助吳氏向有關基金或團體申請撥款，以應付日後在法律上或其他方面的支出。至於會否舉辦籌款活動等問題，就需要視乎事態日後的發展而定。
關注組的其他發起人還包括時事評論員姚永安、加拿大亞洲二戰浩劫史實維護會共同主席列國遠，以及加國與原住民真相及和解聯會創辦人朱偉光等社區活躍人士。
We have to do fund-raising in order to get justice from White people in Canada?
There was a news writeup on2010-01-024
I’ll quote only the last para:
“至于事件中，究竟是谁对谁错，陈志动表示，由于他不在现场，故无法作出评论，不过，他认为警方内部有程序，可以判别警员的行为有没有过火。而在事件中，他知道受伤的事主吴耀伟，虽然移民温哥华已经十多年，但仍不识英文，他说中侨设有免费的英文班。”
[He came to Vancouver in 1991 and his explanation for not learning English because 'fed-funded Chong Chiauw not offering free classes.]
Oddly the Chinese-speaking community are not entirely one-sided. Police brutality is one thing and needs to be addressed. Some of them are making fun of the incident by composing this joke in Mandarin:
policemen: “Are you the troublemaker in question?”
house-owner: “Yes”
policemen wacked him up.
wife: “No, not him.”
Oddly the Chinese-speaking community are not entirely one-sided.
So true, except the people laughing at him doesn’t speak English either. They wrote in Chinese?
And I don’t understand why people blame it on not speaking English?
They are supposed to beat people up if you don’t speak English? When those White Canadians are staying in Germany, Russia, Finland, should they be murdered or beated up just because they don’t speak German or Russian or Finnish or whatever.
And we know how many Canadians are staying in Europe?
CF, don’t put words in my mouth. I DID NOT SAY “they laugh at him not speaking English”.
Neither did the reporter who put in the last sentence in his last paragraph.
Never ever assume the readers (nor voters) are stupid.
I am busy working for a living, but I do find time to speak Mandarin with the mainlanders who are my friends, and practice my Minangyee (Hokkien) with my Taiwanese colleagues, and ordering my favorite dishes in Cantonese.
There is no excuse for beating up the citizenry. However I am sure majority of those lurking on this site are educated CBCs, FOBs, or whatever. Rude demeanor or tone can give a wrong impression, and in some cases, come to much grieves.
happy: don’t mind the way CF argues on things… he doesn’t mean to be offensive though his wordings seem to be. :))
again, we can have civilized discussions without pointing fingers at each other. just focus on the topic, please.
My apologies. I’m not offended and I hope CF isn’t.
Because I choose the standard phrase”don’t put words in my mouth”,
what do I expect if readers interpret it accordingly..
I was trying to shorten what I mean to say –
the Chinese community have intelligent and sophisticated people at one end of the pole,
and some at the other end; the rest are in between.
Take a look at the future of this case, more or less:
http://news.ca.msn.com/local/britishcolumbia/article.aspx?cp-documentid=23403886
I read this from somewhere:
Why do some VPD blatantly lie?
I was pulled over leaving a private liquor store and I was mad because there was no excuse for pulling me over. I obey road rules and was not drinking at all. I told the cop this and he lied and said he smelled booze on my breath. He made me get out of my vehicle and do the breathalizer, which of course read zero. Why did he lie? He was very short and only came up to my chest. Did he have a Napoleon complex? His partner was also a runt like him.
Testimony continues:
“Similar thing happened to me last month. I asked the dude why I was pulled over, he said I don’t have my N sign. I pointed out the N on the back window, then he made some excuse that it wasn’t visible from the left side. He asked me few questions, and eventually let me go. When they question you, their trying to make you trip up, so they have some ammunition they can use against you.
I watched an episode of COPS, where the cop asked some fool if he could search the car, the fool said no. Then the cop said that he’d get a K9 unit to come sniff the car, the fool got scarred and consented to the search. This is pure bullshit, they can’t detain you and bring in a K9 unit. Even if they did bring in a K9 unit, a dog barking at your car doesn’t mean much, after all a dog can bark at anything. It’ll never stand-up in court.”
2010-03-10
來自亞省的前聯邦保守黨議員賈費亞(Rahim Jaffer)周二承認疏忽駕駛罪名，控方因此撤銷對他的擁有可卡因及醉駕等控罪。批評人士大呼不公，要求聯邦司法部過問此案，兌現其實施嚴刑峻法承諾。
賈費亞周二與控方達成抗辯協議，承認疏忽駕駛罪名，換取醉駕及擁有可卡因控罪的撤銷。
但批評人士抨擊道，此案暴露了保守黨標榜所謂「加大執法力度」的偽善。
一向倡議「有效、公正及人道」執法的加拿大釋囚會(John Howard Society of Canada)執行總監鍾斯(Craig Jones)，周二對此判決表示不滿。他認為，賈費亞案的結果和哈珀政府所推行的對各類犯罪設置最低刑罰的願望，形成強烈反差。
包括哈珀總理在內的許多保守黨政客，都曾公開批評過法官量刑過輕的問題。但對於賈費亞案，數名保守黨議員周二托稱，該案在安省法院審理，管轄權屬於安省，與聯邦政府無關。他們還強調聯邦不對司法程序進行政治干預的重要性。
但是，多倫多大學(University of Toronto)犯罪學教授杜布(Anthony Doob)表示，保守黨強制推行設置最低刑期的法律，恰恰就是一種政治干預。
他指出，大部分加人雖然有法治的觀念，但他們都接受在實際案件中「酌情發落」的合理性。強制的最低刑期，使得這種「酌情」量刑無法實現。因此，「我們已經大體為政治目的而犧牲了酌情量刑」。
一般來說，檢控機關往往會與法官達成協議，以實現酌情量刑。
但因為他們不能公開這麼做了，他們只能背地裡這麼做。這恰恰造成了賈費亞這種情形
This is Canada’s version of the Rule of Law?
Drunk driving and possession of cocaine supposedly mean jail time and a criminal record, changed into a charge of careless driving with a $500 fine with no criminal record?
I can’t imagine something like this happen in Hong Kong. But Canada, oh yeah!
More Police misconduct EVERYDAY!!!
[2010-03-13]
騎警遭罰款停牌本報記者報道卑詩內陸維農（Vernon）一個皇家騎警承認，未有提供呼氣測試樣本，遭法官下令罰款1,000元兼禁止駕駛一年。涉案警員目前轉調文職，等候內部調查結果。
涉案的警員名叫特平（Jody Turpin），去年12月19日凌晨時分，兩個警員發現他坐在一輛車上。警員相信特平飲過酒並且想開車，於是起訴他醉酒駕駛。
特平在省級法庭上承認，未有提供呼氣樣本供警員測試，而控方則撤銷醉駕的控罪。
調文職等待內部調查
涉案警員自去年底被捕後就被警局轉調文職，而騎警的內部調查目前仍未有結果。如果證實他確曾犯事，輕則罰款了事，重則會遭解僱。
Nova Scotia Premier Darrell Dexter said he hopes to grant a posthumous pardon to Canada’s “Rosa Parks” — Viola Desmond — who was jailed 63 years ago for sitting in a movie theatre section reserved for whites.
“As a province, we should be willing to make that statement,” he said. “To recognize the incredible character it took to stand up for what she believed in.”
Desmond, a black 32-year-old Halifax beautician, became a Nova Scotia civil rights icon on Nov. 8, 1946, when she went into the segregated Roseland Theatre in New Glasgow while waiting for her car to be repaired.
When Desmond tried to buy a ticket for the main floor, she was told that she was not permitted to sit in the whites-only section, and she had to find a seat in the balcony.
In a spontaneous act of defiance, she ignored the rule, and took a seat on the main floor anyway.
Since there were no actual laws covering segregation, Desmond’s perceived racial transgression led to her arrest and conviction for defrauding the province of a penny — the difference in tax between what she paid for a balcony ticket and what she should have paid to sit downstairs.
After spending a night in jail, she paid a $20 fine plus costs, and returned to Halifax.
Her case made her a cause celebre for the newly formed Nova Scotia Association for Advancement of Coloured People.
Dexter said the provincial Justice Department is looking into how the province should proceed, but he does not know when exactly the pardon will be granted.
“The issues associated with racism continue to exist in society,” said Dexter. “If we can draw some attention to this event and demonstrate that we are trying to make amends, maybe it can make a difference.”
In recent weeks, Nova Scotia has seen racial tensions rise after a cross-burning on an interracial couple’s lawn and the city of Halifax has moved to atone for the levelling of the black community of Africville in the 1960s for a bridge development.
Desmond died in 1965.
Henry Bishop, a historian with the Black Cultural Centre of Nova Scotia, said a pardon for Desmond would be significant, even six decades later.
“She’s an important symbol for human rights in Nova Scotia,” he said. “A pardon doesn’t do the situation justice, but it makes people realize that it should never happen again.”
Bishop said many people don’t know Desmond’s story the way they know the story of Rosa Parks, the famed American civil rights protester who took a seat in the whites-only section of an Alabama bus as a deliberate act of protest in 1955.
Desmond, he said, just wanted to watch a movie.
“She did what she felt she should do,” Bishop said. “The intent wasn’t to cause an uproar.”
That’s why, he added, “there aren’t pictures of Viola being carried out of the theatre kicking and screaming.”
Katie Mercer, Vancouver Province: Saturday, May 8, 2010 10:02 PM
Five Mounties face investigation for mocking man in custody who died
Five Mounties in the Yukon are facing an internal investigation for their roles in the 2008 death of a man who was in their custody shortly before he died in hospital.
Raymond Silverfox, 43, spent 13 hours in the drunk-tank at the Whitehorse detachment in December 2008, where he vomited 23 times while officers mocked him, an inquest heard last month.
RCMP Supt. Peter Clark released a video statement late Friday announcing that the five officers had been notified they will be investigated under the force’s code of conduct provisions.
“I am shocked and disappointed, as are many members of the RCMP, that Mr. Silverfox had to endure the insensitive and callous treatment he endured while he was in our care,” Clark said.
“We have failed you and we have failed ourselves. He deserved much better from us and there is no question that we fell short. We didn’t live up to your expectations or the standards we have set for ourselves and for that we apologize.”
The inquest, which ran from April 15 to 23, heard that detachment staff did not provide Silverfox with medical attention after he vomited profusely and defecated in his jail cell.
An ambulance was finally called after someone within the detachment noticed Silverfox had stopped moving. He died in hospital several hours later from acute pneumonia.
Clark said independent investigators — including officers from B.C. and Alberta — who probed Silverfox’s death failed to transcribe the audio portion of what was said in the cellblock. A Whitehorse member made the discovery three days before the inquest was to begin.
“The fact that important information was missed, and the content of the audio, causes me grave concern,” Clark said. “A further review of the transcripts was immediately undertaken.”
The audio transcripts revealed that some of the officers had taunted and laughed at Silverfox as he lay in his own filth. “No, you can sleep in your own sh—,” one officer retorted after Silverfox asked for a mat. “Yeah, you need a pizza too?” he added.
The internal investigation will focus on RCMP members and not the jail guards, who are employed by the Comissionaires. One guard has since left by personal choice and the other no longer works in a RCMP facility.
Clark said the RCMP has requested the inquest transcripts to be sent to the Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP and a Crown prosecutor to determine “if the actions or the inactions of the RCMP or its employees are of a criminal nature.”
The audio transcripts revealed that some of the officers had taunted and laughed at Silverfox as he lay in his own filth. “No, you can sleep in your own sh—,” one officer retorted after Silverfox asked for a mat. “Yeah, you need a pizza too?” he added.
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That’s like Hitler’s concentration camp, no?
2010年6月9日 星期三
2警拒認毆打華漢罪 強調用武皆因執行職務
【明報專訊】涉嫌在今年一月毆打溫哥華華裔男子吳耀偉的兩名溫市警察，拒絕所有對方律師的指控。法庭文件顯示，兩名警察稱，使用武力(use of force)是「當時的合法判斷」。
被控告的兩名警員是Nicholas Florkow及Bryan London，他們日前向卑詩最高法院提出辯方訴狀，強調他們當時是在執行警察職務，並未有任何逾越法例規範的行為，因此不承認所有控罪。雙方的文件已經入稟法院，目前尚未安排聆訊日期。
吳耀偉是在今年3月，聯同妻子文其蘭通過代表律師A. Cameron Ward，以民事訴訟的形式入稟卑詩省最高法院，向涉事兩名溫哥華警員、溫哥華警隊的僱主溫哥華市府，以及調查該案的三角洲警隊僱主三角洲市政府索取賠償。
吳耀偉在訴訟書指稱，兩警員在本年1月21日凌晨2時許，非法闖入其在溫哥華Lanark街6200號路段的家中，將他拉出屋外毆打。他又說，打人警員沒有受到挑釁，也沒有理據。他被打後身上有瘀傷、內傷、頭部受傷、面部骨折、視力受損，心理受到很大的打擊。吳耀偉又稱，他的妻子身心亦受到傷害。
What’s next? Hitler’s concentration camps were legit “use of force”, too?
White canuck cops here love to use these two lies:
1. Obstructing a police investigation–by doing nothing other than watching police officers committing misconduct and atrocities.
2. You are under arrest–if you don’t obey ANY police officer’s command while they want to cover up their police misconduct and atrocities.
No rule of law, no justice, no human rights. And you know what, it will keep happening next week, next month, next year. You can bet on it!
While the canuck cops here always REFUSE to show their Poice ID/badge, even though they have to according to B.C. Police Act, crime such as this is rampant in B.C.
Fake police rob River Rock Casino customers
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/06/09/bc-river-rock-casino-customers-robbed.html
Very different from HK or Japan Police.
010-07-22 04:12:00
【新唐人2010年7月22日訊】湖北省政法委黃仕明的太太陳玉蓮，在省委門口被民警毆打事件，在網上引發熱議，武漢警方將事件定性為民警執勤時“行為粗暴”，而陳玉蓮家屬認為警方避重就輕，袒護施暴者。家屬強烈要求：公開打人錄像。但黃仕明本人遭到上級壓力。警方也希望「夫人算了」。
20號晚，刊登在《長江網》的一條新聞通稿表示，武昌公安分局依據《公安機關人民警察紀律條令》有關規定，對3名在執勤中行為粗暴的民警作出處理決定：1名民警被記大過，調離公安機關﹔2名被記過處分。
《南方都市報》21號報導說，陳玉蓮家屬表示絕不同意這一處理，黃仕明在警方向他徵求意見時當場反對。
陳玉蓮妹妹陳翠蓮向《南方都市報》表示：“說公安人員行為粗暴，所以這樣處理。但這叫粗暴嗎？這豈不是把毆打行為跟罵你兩句、吼你一下、使用不文明用語歸為同類了？如果這種行為叫作行為粗暴，那麼治安管理處罰條例上打人傷人的要取消，刑法上的傷害罪也要取消了。”
報導說，陳玉蓮本人在一份書面聲明中表示：“強烈要求按照《中華人民共和國警察法》和《中國共產黨紀律處分條例》規定，對6•23違法亂紀者，儘快作出’雙開’處理。”
據家屬介紹，事後他們曾調看過衛兵上方的那份錄像視頻，並提出想拷貝一份帶走，但對方表示不能給。家屬們又找到桃山村小區的那份錄像保管方，但“他們說公安部門已經打過招呼了”，也不能給。
家屬說，“現在沒有人願意公布這個錄像。”但“公布一下又何妨？不是一直在說從嚴治警嗎？現在這部錄像，就是最好的教材，我們有醜不護醜，通過活生生的事例，對公安幹警不是能起到很好的教育作用嗎？而為甚麼卻不敢將之公諸於眾？”
據陳翠蓮介紹，打人事件曝光後，市裡領導曾找黃仕明談過話。黃仕明“受到了很大的壓力”，為此，家人表示，“哪怕和他斷絕關係，也要繼續討個說法”。
陳翠蓮表示，“我們不會放棄，我們就是想讓全國老百姓都知道有這麼一件事，讓全國人民都看一下，這件事究竟最後會如何處理，處理得公不公正。”
據了解，陳玉蓮是湖北省婦幼保健院退休醫生，退休期間取得醫院的正高職稱，但隨後的待遇卻一直沒有落實。陳玉蓮對《南方都市報》記者說，她當天去找省政法委一位副書記，就是關於她的職稱和待遇問題。
據一位曾經接觸過黃仕明家的北京記者介紹，黃家獨生女在湖北省某家大醫院就診時，發生醫療事故死亡，黃家一直在上訪，“陳玉蓮去省委談事前，曾聯繫過政法委領導，當天政法委很多人都知道她要來。”
《南都》報導說，陳玉蓮家屬懷疑毆打事件有人指使，但沒有證據。
新唐人記者周平、孫寧綜合報導
Any difference?
武昌公安分局派駐湖北省委大院的6名便衣警察錯打了湖北省政法委綜治辦副主任58歲的妻子。公安方面的領導來醫院道歉時說，打人純屬誤會，沒想到打了你這個大領導的夫人，被在場者當場反問“領導的夫人不可以打，那老百姓就可以打了?”（7月20日正義網）
6個壯漢面對一位老弱女子，一句話沒有上來就是一頓毒打，打了16分鐘才算“過癮”，若不是有銘心刻骨的深仇大恨，那麼不論說他們品質極端惡劣、野蠻成性、心狠手毒，還是喪失人性，都絕不過分。首先要問的是：警察隊伍裏怎麼會有這種惡人呢？
有網友質疑：打人是不是這些警察的工作任務？問得一點都不刁；其一，警察打人並不假思索，而且施暴手法專業，這無法讓我們相信，警察對訪民的施暴只是一次偶然。其二，警方稱“純屬誤會”——打錯了，“沒想到打了你這個大領導的夫人”，這言外之意究竟是說，那天該打的是另有其人，還是除了“大領導的夫人”，凡是去省委上訪的，去一個打一個，所以連問都不用問呢？不好說。
再者，身為警察，肯定知道打人是犯法的，而如此殘忍的毒打更不是一般性質的犯法；可這6個警察卻敢放開手腳打個痛快，似乎他們一點都不考慮後果，那麼我們只能做如此猜測：打人是工作任務，有人給兜著。其實這也不算猜測，警方已經明明白白地告訴我們了：打“大領導夫人”是“打錯了”——若打了“該打”的人，就沒錯；“該打”的人，不用說就是老百姓了？
誰給“信訪專班”的警察佈置了這樣的“工作任務”？為什麼會有這樣的“工作任務”？這個問題很蹊蹺。省政法委一位知情人透露，“信訪專班”人員的任務是維護治安秩序，如一旦發生衝擊省委大門，有打砸燒等突發事件，則由他們來維持治安。名為“信訪專班”，做的卻是暴力阻訪的工作，不經意間又讓我們看見了地方對群眾上訪的如臨大敵和暴力打壓。這究竟是在“維穩”，還是激化矛盾？“維”的又是誰的“穩”呢？
當然，官方完全可以把這一事件定性為個人行為；可如果是個人行為，這6個警察就必須開除、追究刑事責任。顯然，官方不但沒有此意，反而尋求法外開恩，並且肇事警察被安排外出旅遊；莫非，因執行命令受了委屈，領導要安撫安撫？
受害人家屬說得好，如袒護包庇，公眾不會答應。是的，這不僅是“大領導夫人”被打的問題，而是公眾事件。只是，“工作任務”的語境下，公眾尋求真相恐怕不易。（馬滌明）
Are police abuses just about race? Perhaps some cops are just thugs.
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