to those who say toronto doesn't have issues with police an blacks
Amateur video shows police beating Toronto Somali
"A videotape taken by witnesses appears to show Jama Jama, a 21-year-old landed immigrant from Somalia, trying to stop the fight before police arrive. Once officers from 23 Division show up, the tape, as broadcast on CITY-TV, a
ppears to show a gloved officer gritting his teeth, grabbing Mr. Jama and punching him in the face, apparently unprovoked.....Mr. Jama was examined in hospital before being taken to a police station and
charged with assaulting a police officer and disturbing the peace. Police accounts of that night, Mr. Vaughan said,
accuse Mr. Jama of pushing an officer and claim that his injuries were sustained in the fighting before police arrived.
The videotape appears to show him unscathed before the police appeared, his lawyer said."
police up in canada covering shyt up too.
more on the story below
Officer loses assault appeal, led away in handcuffs | Toronto Star
After his conviction,
Preston had been suspended from work but at full pay under a special order by Chief Bill Blair.
Not only did the six-year veteran use "gratuitous violence,"
he then tried to frame Jama Jama for assault, lying to a sergeant at the station that the native of Somalia "gave him a shot," said Scott, a supposed punch during the arrest.
But the phantom punch was part of a "cover-up," one of 15 points of "fabricated evidence" attempted by Preston to hide his own crime, Scott told Garton.
Lawyer Alan Gold told the judge that when Preston got to the scene he believed Jama Jama was about to assault a man lying on the ground.
When Jama Jama refused to obey his orders,
continued Gold, the officer was justified to punch him in the face "to bring him under control and ensure the officer's safety."
But when a
videotape of the incident later surfaced, and was played again yesterday,
it clearly showed Preston moving quickly towards Jama Jama as he backed up, giving no resistance to the officer who suddenly gave him a roundhouse left to the jaw.