I am really appalled with how policemen are treating the people, in north America, the law protects them from being charged, however this is 2011, cameras are all over the streets and every cell phone can video tape.
In the Jan. 7 video, Const. Geoff Mantler can be seen kicking 51-year-old Buddy Tavares as he knelt on the ground beside his truck.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLo18EcZx...Mounties had pulled over Tavares in response to a 911 call regarding a domestic violence incident and arrested him after finding a shotgun in his vehicle. He was charged with careless use of firearm.
Tavares told CTV News that he's been told that Crown prosecutors may drop the charge if he agrees to a weapons prohibition.
At the time of his arrest, Tavares was recovering from a brain injury and trying to regain his skills at the piano. The kick in the face was a huge setback.
"I was back to like when I got out of hospital. Except now, the left hand knows what it's playing, the right hand knows what it's playing -- they're just not playing together," Tavares said.
And his anger has not softened at all -- not just about the kick, but also about how it felt to see Mantler point his gun at him as Tavares sat trembling behind the wheel of his truck.
"[It was] terrifying, beyond unnerving. I'm familiar with that gun and it will make a big hole. Especially when he tells you, 'I will shoot you,'" Tavares said.
The Seattle police officer who fatally shot a woodcarver from Vancouver Island resigned Wednesday, Seattle police Chief John Diaz announced.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mvLw2ksP...Ian Birk, 27, had joined the department in July 2008.
Earlier Wednesday, King County Prosecuting Attorney Dan Satterberg said his office would not file criminal charges against Birk for shooting John Williams on Aug. 30, 2010.
Williams, who had lived in Seattle for years, was a member of the Ditidaht First Nation based near Nitinat Lake, near Port Renfrew. He had a knife in his possession when killed, the knife was closed and was a small wood carving knife, he was looking at the piece of wood that he was carving, no one was around, when he was told by the cop to put down the knife he closed it. He was shot 3 or 4 times.
Protestors demonstrate, Feb. 16, 2011, in downtown Seattle, after the King County Prosecutor announced Seattle Police Officer Ian Birk will not face charges after the shooting death of John T. Williams last year.
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