Const. Brant Derrick is a LIAR
http://metronews.ca/news/canada/1205...lse-testimony/
Some lies, though, cannot escape the spotlight, especially when video or audio tells the unadulterated truth.
Video shot by civilian eyewitnesses exposed the lies of two Calgary officers who beat Jason Arkinstall while he was handcuffed and then charged him with obstructing, threatening and assaulting an officer.
The video, shot after 3 a.m. on Aug. 31, 2008, the weekend of a tattoo convention, shows Const. Brant Derrick smacking Arkinstall in the back of his head and throwing him head first and onto his stomach in a police van’s rear caged compartment. Arkinstall was thrown with such force his flailing legs almost hit the van roof. “In an obvious burst of anger,” Judge Terry Semenuk said, Derrick slammed the van doors on Arkinstall’s leg.
Semenuk acquitted Arkinstall of threatening Derrick. The other two charges were dropped before trial. The officers, the judge said, were “unreliable and not credible.”
Judge Semenuk was understating.
In court, before Derrick knew the video existed, Arkinstall’s lawyer asked him if he struck Arkinstall before throwing him into the van and slamming the van door.
Derrick: “It didn’t happen.”
Lawyer: “Didn’t happen?”
Derrick: “No.”
Lawyer: “You’re sure of that.”
Derrick: “Yes. I’m sure of that.”
Over 100 cases recorded since 2005 where police have misled the courts.
When you give a group of humans the legal obligation to hold a monopoly of force you quickly find out that there is really no difference between someone in a tshirt and someone wearing a hat with a badge on it. None of us are exempt from the abuse of power, yet we continue to ignore this and hand over our freedoms to the most powerful and most corrupt in society. Not all police are consciously corrupt or as power hungry at these people but we really need to realize that there aren't enough good cops to make up for the actions of the bad cops, nor can the 'good' cops do anything to stop the actions of their brothers and sisters when they abuse their power.• Some of the words judges used to describe police evidence and testimony were “lie,” “fabricate,” “evasive,” “absurd,” “ridiculous,” “subversive,” “disturbing” and “pure fiction.”
If the decent cops in society actively patrolled their own ranks we would have an amazing police force, but obviously this is fantasy. How can we expect police to keep the streets safe when they cannot keep their own brothers and sisters from committing crimes in the chair next to them on the jury stand? How can we task them with protecting us when they cannot even create a safe environment within their own ranks?
Police officers are supposed to be the finest humans beings the city has to offer, so they should be infinitely easier to patrol and monitor for criminal behavior. These people should be easily weeded out, but instead the artificial family of the police station creates a wing of ultimate protection for any officer that breaks the law.
What are the police doing to attempt to restore the trust of society that has vanished into a sea of corruption and lies, backed by hostility for speaking a bad word about the department based on a small minority of its members.
Some of these people lie under oath, and go out the next day and stop you in your personal car and hand you a ticket for holding a cell phone.
If I cannot be trusted to carry a gun in public because I have the capability for violence and losing my temper and making bad judgement calls, so should the police acknowledge that they are not some super human race that is completely exempt from these basic human flaws.
A very telling piece of information in this regard is the fact that retired police officers must hand in their guns and are then bound by the same gun laws as the rest of the Canadian public, which a day prior they had opposite rights of gun ownership and use.
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