Woman Says Police Broke Her Arm
Karlene Spencer, an artist, was reportedly in tears on radio yesterday, as she recounted as she recounted an incident of maltreatment and abuse by a group of police personnel who reportedly broke her arm in the process.
Her ordeal reportedly began at minutes after 9 p.m. on Sunday, when two vehicles with police personnel stopped at the gate of her apartment off Waterloo Road in St Andrew. She had just seen off her sister who had been visiting her, and was returning to her apartment when she saw the police party. Spencer said the policemen searched a garbage skip nearby, from which they removed a juice box. She said one policeman asked other residents if they know who had disposed of it. One reportedly said it belonged to ‘Kim’.
Spencer said the policeman then referred to her as Kim, and demanded that she approach him. She refused to go, telling him that her name is not Kim. However, he allegedly continued to call her by that name. She said she insisted that her name is Karlene, but the policeman apparently got incensed and accosted her, injuring her arm in the process.
She said the abuse continued with other policemen getting involved and that she was slammed against a police pickup before being hauled into the vehicle. She said this happened in full view of other residents who were seemingly intimidated by the police and did not intervene. According to Spencer, one policeman then took her hand above her head and handcuffed her.
She was taken to the to the Half-Way Tree Police Station, where she said the ordeal continued. She was finally released from the handcuffs on the insistence of a policeman who came on duty at the station, before she was charged with resisting arrest. She was later released on bail and is booked to appear in the Half-Way Tree Resident Magistrate’s Court on December 5.
Spencer has reportedly filed an official complaint about the matter, and it is said that the police commissioner Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin himself has charged an officer with the full investigation of the matter.
Tags : police abuse, police maltreatment
One Response to “Woman Says Police Broke Her Arm”
said on November 27th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Primitive!! Extremely primitive and neanderthal behaviour on the part of the police.Hopefully,the investigations will result in these officers being disciplined and those that are extremely culpable booted out of the Force.
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