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Seven police officers were charged with torture and other offenses for beating of two Albanian immigrants recorded on a cell phone and posted on the Internet.
Public prosecutor Panayiotis Meidanis charged two officers with criminal counts of torture, two others with complicity, and another three officers with misdemeanors including harboring a criminal and dereliction of duty, court officials said.
All seven officers serve at the Omonia police precinct in central Athens. The suspects include the precinct chief who received a misdemeanor charge.
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Globe and Mail - Canada
18 March 2008
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Judge rebukes officer's taseri
In a decision that strikes a blow to the Toronto Police Service, a judge ruled yesterday that an officer tasered a naked man in the back while he was handcuffed and lying face down on the floor.
Calling the officer's actions "cruel and unusual treatment," Mr. Justice D. M. Brown of the Ontario Superior Court rejected the testimony of the policeman, Constable Michael Fonseca, that he tasered Francis Andre Walcott at the same time as another officer. Noting "internal contradictions" in his testimony, the judge concluded Constable Fonseca tasered Mr. Walcott after he had been subdued, almost two minutes later.
In ruling that Mr. Walcott's Charter rights were violated, Judge Brown stayed a drug charge against him.
"... Since the discharge of a taser after a person has been restrained and controlled would have no other purpose than to punish the person - a purpose not permitted by the TPS Taser Policy - I find that Officer Fonseca's discharge of his taser on Mr. Walcott constituted 'cruel and unusual treatment' in violation of Mr. Walcott's section 12 Charter right," he wrote.
Later in his ruling, Judge Brown said he considers Constable Fonseca's "misuse of the taser" as "rising to the level of 'an egregious act of misconduct.' "
The police force, whose chief, Bill Blair, wants to equip front-line officers with tasers, is reviewing the judgment and has not yet decided whether any officers will be disciplined, said spokesman Mark Pugash.
Mr. Walcott was tasered after Emergency Task Force officers stormed a boarding house to execute a firearms search warrant on March 29, 2007.
Constable Eric Reimer testified that he tasered Mr. Walcott, who had been having sexual intercourse, after Mr. Walcott ignored the officers commands to get down. Constable Reimer said that Constable Fonseca also deployed his taser, jolting Mr. Walcott almost simultaneously, a contention the judge also rejected.
Data from both officers' tasers showed Constable Reimer used his stun gun twice at 11:26 p.m., while Constable Fonseca cycled his three times, starting at 11:28 p.m. Judge Brown ruled the data were accurate, despite testimony that tasers' internal clocks can gain or lose several minutes a month.
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