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But, he claims that while he was picking up his phone, a burglary was underway. Two men emerged from one of the apartments with a stash of stolen items and jumped a fence. He came out of his hospital bed and spoke to us outside the KHMH to tell us what happened next:

Voice of: Victim of Police brutality
"Then Police arrived, they handcuffed me and they asked me about the people. I told them I don't know them; I came for a phone from the two young men that live in this room. But they didn't want to hear my story. They said they would get it out of me right now, they would make me talk. And they handcuffed me and started to kick both of my knees which broke both of my legs. After they broke my legs I told them: "you've already broken my legs" and they still didn't want to leave me alone they were telling me: "Talk, Talk" I told them I don't know those people and they started to hit me with a broomstick even after they had broken my legs. They hit m in my face and fractured my nose, after that they brought me to the hospital and told me that I would be charged for a burglary that I have no knowledge about."

Voice of: Sister of Victim of Police brutality
"I went to see the area myself because police are alleging that he was one of the persons who were burglarizing this guy's place and they said he tried to jump the fence and hurt himself. They said that when he tried to jump the fence he fell and sustained the injuries has now. So they are trying to cover up the beating that they put on him and like i said my brother has said that he has nothing to do with whatever was going on. He got beaten this why just because he refused to say who was the person he saw."

"When I visited the scene I spoke to all the neighbors. It's like alot of houses together and they all, a lot of people, came out and said,: "Mein, the police they beat your brother badly." And they said that police brought him there to beat him. He was actually not jumping the fence according to them. He was actually on the side that he said he was on where he went for the phone. And he, they took him there and beat him, Blood is still on the spot they said they push his face in the mud, they punched him in his face, they said they threw him in the pan of the pickup, they did alot of things to him. They kicked him all over. He was screaming, he was crying, one neighbor said they heard that My brother was saying: "Ow My penis." or whatever according to my brother it was three of them who beat him 2 GSU and a CIB officers. My brother said the CIB officer literally took off his pants and was just beating him in his private parts, his private area, but all this while they were beating him they were questioning him and they were saying: "you will talk, you will talk, we will broke you up you will talk." All because they want this information from him."

"We just wanted everyone to know again that the police are especially the GSU are still currently beating people senselessly unnecessarily wrongly We will pursue legal action of course because I've seen this so many times and God knows they will not learn any lesson but the state that he's in I believe he is due compensation. He's an innocent person just at the wrong place at the wrong time."

Police say the suspect will be charged for burglary. They say they met a burglary in process and that the young man - inured himself when he jumped the fence and caused his own injuries.

The family has made a complaint to the Professional standards branch and intend to pursue a civil suit against the three officers.