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Canadian police shoving prompts probe
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, A Canadian civil liberties group is calling for an investigation into an incident, caught on video, involving police shoving a disabled woman to the ground.
The video shows three Vancouver, British Columbia, police officers walking down a crowded street last month, encountering a woman coming into their path and then being given a hard shove to the ground by one of the officers, the Vancouver Province reported.
The police officers walked on while the 26-year-old woman, who has multiple sclerosis, remained on the ground until a passerby helped her to her feet, the newspaper said Thursday.
"I find it disturbing. It looks like a group of bullies, frankly," British Columbia Civil Liberties Association spokesman David Eby said. "She seems to try to get out of the way and can't, and when she passes between them, one of them pushes her over."
BCCLA officials say they want a "top-down examination and reform" of the Vancouver Police Department because of an apparent "problematic interaction between Vancouver's police force and a disabled resident of its most impoverished neighborhood," the Province said.
The BCCLA alleges a surveillance camera captured another incident at odds with information released by police. Police said this month Ali Eltah Ishtag, 47, "began to resist and fight" before grabbing an officer's baton. However, video footage shows Ishtag being approached by two officers who grab and knee him, the newspaper said.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, A Canadian civil liberties group is calling for an investigation into an incident, caught on video, involving police shoving a disabled woman to the ground.
The video shows three Vancouver, British Columbia, police officers walking down a crowded street last month, encountering a woman coming into their path and then being given a hard shove to the ground by one of the officers, the Vancouver Province reported.
The police officers walked on while the 26-year-old woman, who has multiple sclerosis, remained on the ground until a passerby helped her to her feet, the newspaper said Thursday.
"I find it disturbing. It looks like a group of bullies, frankly," British Columbia Civil Liberties Association spokesman David Eby said. "She seems to try to get out of the way and can't, and when she passes between them, one of them pushes her over."
BCCLA officials say they want a "top-down examination and reform" of the Vancouver Police Department because of an apparent "problematic interaction between Vancouver's police force and a disabled resident of its most impoverished neighborhood," the Province said.
The BCCLA alleges a surveillance camera captured another incident at odds with information released by police. Police said this month Ali Eltah Ishtag, 47, "began to resist and fight" before grabbing an officer's baton. However, video footage shows Ishtag being approached by two officers who grab and knee him, the newspaper said.