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POLICE: DRAGGING SENIORS DOWN STAIRS REASONABLE
Do you accept a society where your earnings are stolen and used to pay people with guns to drag seniors down stairs? – VP
No discipline for Coquitlam RCMP officers involved in Best Western arrest caught on video
“After examining the totality of the circumstances, the use of force… by the officers on scene was deemed reasonable and the investigation has been concluded,” said Cpl. Michael McLaughlin.
The Coquitlam RCMP officers involved in a 2016 arrest of two senior citizens that was caught on video and posted to YouTube will not be disciplined following an internal code of conduct investigation.
The footage showed one officer dragging a man down a flight of stairs at the Best Western on North Road while another Mountie attempted to cuff a woman as a child screamed and held on to her leg.
Thursday, Cpl. Michael McLaughlin told The Tri-City News that the use of force was found to be appropriate.
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