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Brisbane police officer found
A Crime and Misconduct Commission investigation has resulted in a Queensland police officer being found guilty of assault.
Thirty-six-year-old Constable Michael Anthony O'Sullivan was found guilty of attacking Christopher Ahovelo with his police baton during an incident in Adelaide Street in Brisbane's CBD last year.
Mr Ahovelo had earlier been sprayed with capsicum spray.
Appearing in the Brisbane Magistrates Court, the constable was fined $700 and no conviction was recorded.
A report will be forwarded to the Police Ethical Standards Command, which will con... Read more
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17 October 2008
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Cancer Survivor Claiming Polic
REVERE, Mass. -- A local man who is frail from a long battle with cancer said his rights were violated recently on the streets of Revere.
He claimed he was attacked by a police officer during a routine traffic stop.
Police said their officers were only acting by the book when a car was stopped for speeding at a local construction site, but Harold Bennett, 61, said he was assaulted without provocation.
Disabled and frail from a rare form of skull cancer, Bennett said he won't soon forget Wednesday's run-in with a Revere police officer.
"This guy should not be a police officer. Especially when he's going to say to a person who's just leaning against a car, having a cigarette, 'I'll shoot shoot. I'll put a bullet in you,' were his exact words. 'I'll put a bullet in you," Bennett said.
Bennett's ex-wife was driving when the two were pulled over near the construction zone on Park Avenue. The officer working near the site claimed she was speeding and nearly hit him and a construction worker, a charge Bennett denies.
"With people all around, all kind of construction work is being done, how could you be speeding?" he said.
Revere police would not comment about the incident, but the incident report states that after the traffic stop, both Bennetts were told to stay in the car. Harold Bennett got out to smoke a cigarette and that's when the confrontation escalated.
The officer was in his cruiser writing up a $500 fine. Bennett claims he was never warned to stay in the car.
"The next thing I knew he was hollering at me and screaming at me. What was I doing out of the car? I said, 'I got out of the car to have a cigarette." 'I'll put a bullet in you!" Wait a minute. You're going to put a bullet in me? For what?" Bennett said.
Asked for ID, Bennett reached for his wallet in his fanny pack.
"Try to pull out my wallet to show him my identification and I'm being jumped and I'm being kicked and knocked to the ground," Bennett said.
Bennett has a bloodied ear to prove it. Police said fanny packs are often used to carry firearms. The unarmed man has never been arrested before.
"I was crying when I got to that station, I was scared ... that they would shoot me for no reason," he said.
Bennett was charged with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and assault and battery. Now afraid to drive through Revere, Bennett is filing a complaint charging police misconduct.
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