Constable Smith said the victim was severely intoxicated and helpless. He was staggering about a small cell after midnight on Tuesday and accidentally made contact with the other man
, who was in custody over an alleged domestic assault. The man is alleged to have punched and kicked him repeatedly in the head and face, and kicked and stomped him while he was on the floor, before putting him in a choke hold. Officers entered the cell – described in the document as “blood-covered” – to stop the assault and remove the man committing it. There is no indication how long the assault lasted.
But the RCMP are investigating only the man accused in the beating, not the officers who were there, she said. The RCMP in Nunavut made no mention of the beating in a news release on Tuesday that quoted Chief Supt. Jones on the investigations she ordered. And Chief Supt. Jones, responding to an e-mail from The Globe that same day about whether the man in the video had received medical attention, said only that a nurse had treated him in cells.The police document said he was flown by air ambulance to hospital in Iqaluit.
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