The video circulating on social media shows an officer kicking and punching a man on the ground while another officer is trying to handcuff him in Williams Lake
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.The RCMP’s North District commander says video taken of a violent arrest in Williams Lake, B.C., doesn’t provide the full scope of the arrest and gives no context of what happened before the man was taken into custody.
A statement from Chief Supt. Warren Brown says it started with reports Sunday of a man driving erratically in Kamloops, almost 300 kilometres away from the location of the arrest.Brown says an inquiry into the vehicle showed the driver had recently been found with a loaded handgun, the man refused to stop for officers on the long trip through the Interior and then wouldn’t show his hands when he was arrested.
Brown says a code of conduct investigation has been launched and the Mounties are in discussions about what role an external agency may have in reviewing the use of force and determining if it was necessary under the circumstances. “What is captured by the civilian video was the culmination of a high-risk, multi-jurisdictional incident, that put the lives of the public and police in several communities in jeopardy,” his statement says.
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