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Badly Beaten Men
posted (December 4, 2018)
Our next story is from a family tired of being harassed by police. The Baizar boys are well known to the cops as being George Street affiliates. Their brother, Shakidi was recently killed which spawned an all out gang war that led to the state of emergency.

But, the family says all those reputational allegations gave police no reason to barge into their mile 8 home over the weekend and put a beating on a number of them.

Voice of: Victim
"The police came upstairs and pull me out of my sleep and whap me in my face with a gun and burst up my face. Blood started to come from my face. They took me downstairs and I saw 3 police officers beating my brother. One kicking him, one punching him and the other whopping him with a gun. They just came there and beat us for nothing. They didn't ask any questions. I want to say that in the past police beat me a lot and I just want it to stop. I got my toe chip, my eye bulge, and now my face is scarred. Nothing is coming out from this. All I want is justice for me and my brothers, because they always come and harass us and we are not into that. We want that to stop."

Reporter
"Any kind of charges?"

Voice of: Victim
"No charges. They just took us and when they finish beat us they took us to Hattieville police station, then they took us to the hospital, then brought us back and left one of my brothers and let me go the morning."

Reporter
"You want justice. Will you file a report with the professional standards branch?"

Voice of: Victim
"Yes, I have to do something about it. This can't go on like this anymore."

AS YOU HEARD THE FMAILY IS TKAING ITS COMPLAINT TO POLICE.





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