Police testify at trial of Kelowna RCMP officer accused of assault
Partial footage of the incident appears to show a man struggling with two officers before a third officer runs up and strikes him repeatedly.The BC Prosecution Service said officers were arresting a suspected impaired driver at the time of the alleged assault. The court heard that no charges have been laid against the man.On Wednesday, multiple officers who were involved in the arrest or its aftermath gave their impressions of the events. Kelowna RCMP Const.
Donahue said he tried to use two different techniques to get the man to the ground, but they didn’t work. He said the man did not have any weapons and did not make any threats when Donahue arrived on the scene.Two men wrestle with armed suspect after crash in Kelowna – Mar 7, 2022 He testified the man they were trying to arrest demonstrated “threat cues,” was difficult to arrest, and that Carter believed if the man had gotten free, he would have been assaulted.
Carter agreed with Pietrzak’s lawyer that a couple of physical control techniques had not worked in this case, even with two officers present, so another “force option was required.”The defence lawyer asked Carter, “you don’t know what would have happened if Const. Pietrzak had not intervened and not delivered the punches that you saw?”At the end of his cross-examination, by Const. Pietrzak’s lawyer, Carter agreed he was grateful for Const.
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