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B.C. cop who shoved disabled woman gets new assignment
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The Canadian Press
Date: Wednesday Jul. 28, 2010 7:09 AM ET
VANCOUVER — A Vancouver police officer caught on video pushing a disabled woman down to the ground in one of the country's poorest neighbourhoods has been reassigned.
The 65-second video was uploaded to the web last week and appears to show a woman trying to weave her way through three male officers on the city's Downtown Eastside.
One of the officers then shoves the woman to the ground, before walking away. The two other officers do not intervene.
The Vancouver police department said last week that the officer involved reported the incident to a supervisor and apologized to the woman soon after.
The department said at the time that the officer would remain on full duty pending an investigation, but it now says the cop is no longer patrolling the poverty-stricken neighbourhood.
The force says it's also turned the investigation into the incident over to the New Westminster police department.
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I think he was pushed to take matters into his own hands. I have a teenage son and if he was involved with a drug dealer I would be furious and try anything to save him like this father did for his daughter. Why do police often say they can't do anything until it's too late? Whether it be a drug dealer or an abusive spouse, the police can't seem to do anything until something really bad happens. In this case they could have raided the drug dealers home and arrested him. The whole town knew what was going on in that house but yet the police chose to do nothing. Release this man and give him a medal for doing the right thing by his daughter. I can't wait to see the episode on W5, I will certainly be watching this one.
