If true, a disgusting example of excessive police force:
A Montreal/Laval cop cuffed and dragged a university student away, throwing her in a holding cell and writing her a ticket for CDN$420 ...for failing to hold the handrail while she dug in her bag for her subway fare.
Bela Kosoian, a 38-year-old mother of two, says when she didn't hold the handrail Wednesday she was cuffed, dragged into a small holding cell and fined.
"It was horrible, disgusting behaviour [by police]," said Ms. Kosoian, a 38-year-old student of international law. "I did nothing wrong. They should go find the guys who stole my tires off the balcony."
Ms. Kosoian, who studies at the Université du Québec à Montreal, was riding an escalator down to catch a 5:30 p.m. subway from the suburb of Laval to an evening class downtown when she started rifling through her backpack looking for a fare.
Ms. Kosoian, who grew up in Georgia when it was still part of the Soviet Union, says she didn't catch the officer's instruction to hold the rail when he first approached.
When he told her again to hang on, she says she replied, "I don't have three hands." Besides, she had been sick and feared catching a new bug.
Woman cuffed for not holding escalator handrail
(Image: John Morstad/For The Globe and Mail)
1 comments:
THESE LAVAL OR MONTREAL COPS DON'T REALIZE THAT THERE IS A HIGHER ATTORITY, AND THAT ATTORITY IS THE PEOPLE THE PUBLIC. CONTINUE SCREWING UP AND YOU WILL WISH YOU NEVER BECAME A COP, YOUL BE BANNED FROM SOCIETY. IN MONTREAL in canada in the world ,and cops are not the good people,how can you be a good person if you are not even respected by anyone, and believe you cops are not respected, HAS A MATTER A FACT THATS WHY YOU ABUSE YOUR POWER AND SHOW OFF ,BECAUSE YOU FEEL INTIMIDATED ,BECAUSE YOUR QUEBEC GOVERNEMT DID NOT TEACH YOU THE MOST IMPORTANT BASIS TO BE CALLED AN OFFICER ,AND THAT IS HOW TO EARN RESPECT.Oh THEY THOUGHT YOU HOW TO TRY TO INTIMITADE ,BUT THAT WONT WORK, ACUALLY TRY IT.
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