Ian Fleming (via Auric Goldfinger) once famously stated: "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times, it's enemy action."
Well the incidents of police brutality at the hands of Edmonton Police Service continue to mount:
- A lawyer had his camera confiscated and the film destroyed for photographing police clubbing a young man from Montreal across the skull for wanting to wait for his girlfriend to get out of the bathrom.
- A young girl had her face beaten in while handcuffed behind her back...for the crime of saying bad words to a cop (dontcha wish you had this power at your customer service job?)
- A man was shot six times for stabbing a police dog, in what sort of defines the term overkill
- A young offender's burglary record was thrown out of court on Tuesday after an EPS officer was found by the judge to have committed "a shocking abuse of police powers against a 15-year-old".
- On Wednesday an EPS officer testified about how another EPS officer tasered two men while they lay sleeping (passed out?) in a hotel room.
- Let's not forget even EPS's dogs are so corrupt that they need to be put down as a result of flagrant police (dog) brutality against an innocent civilian
Need I go on? Ironically, I wrote a letter to the Edmonton SUN on Saturday about all of this EPS corruption (I touched upon the brutality) which I don't believe they printed, which is really quite a shame. I'll post it in a few days if it turns out they dropped it down the memory hole.
Again, I refer to my previous amazing unpublished letter on the subject:
Whaddaya mean the Edmonton Journal wouldn't print this??
And of course my immediate response after the Game 7 Stanley Cup Finals loss.
