serve and protect?

THE POLICE are supposed :

..to ke there to protect you
’~-and enforce the law. Yet
” some :eople believe that the
_. police are actually breaking
the law too. Or, at least,
. bending ito

: Asa teenager, T have lots of nin-:

“ins with the police. On more than
“ one occasion my rights have been
Violated by cops. It’s something. °
“.-. most of us ignore — something r
.igrioréd ‘until one night my friends -
had an incident with ihe police.”
‘People must know what" s ‘happen:
ing. ;
Bs ck in January there was a
house’ party. The police were called.
bécause iit ‘got out of hand. Around) .
police. cars and a dog came.to:
the scene. Everyone was kicked out
and people went their own ‘way.

: Every day, | life takes an. ‘informative look att every. oe
aspect of how we live. Mondays

A half an hour later or so, 18-
year-old J.W. and five other friends
were walking down a road, near

_ where the party was, when without
“provocation police cars pulled out.
_ JW. and 15-year-old G.L. were

behind the group and pulled off to
the side to observe from the bushes,
whilc the others continued down the
street. The cop cars pulled out and
surrounded the group of four. ‘The

. two males were thrown in police

cars while 16-year-old E.P. was
hog-tied and 16-year-old K.B. was
thrown against the police car. Both
started screaming out in pain.
That’s when J.W. and G.L. heard
them and decided to go and see if ©
they were okay.

Going up to the nearest police
officer, they asked what they were
doing to their friends and if E.P. and
K.B. were okay.

The cop told them to leave or
they would sic the dog on them.
J.W. responded to that by saying,
“Fine, sic it on me: I'm not going
until you tell me what you're doing
to my friends.”

It was then that the police officer
let the dog loose on the two ‘teenage '
boys. First the dog bit G.L. in the
« leg, and then began biting J.W.’s
arm. Moving his arm back to try
and ‘get the dog to release it, J.W.
then received a blow in the back of ,

~ his head from’a flashlight by the -

police officer. J.W. was taken to™:

Lions Gate Hospital wherehe. >
"received several sets of stitches in

his teft arm where it had been bitten *
. down to the muscle. He also

s the health of

ma your mind Hand body. Tuesdays focus on honie -

received stitches to his head.
Tatking to J.W., he remembers

asking after the police, “Do you

really think | did anything wrong?”
K.B., E.P. and the two males

_ spent the night in jail with no expla-

nation why or phone call home.
They were let out at 7 a.m. with no
transportation home.

Is this enforcing the law or
breaking it? You tell me.

Talking to other teens, 17-year-
old A.C. said, “You won't believe
how many times I've seen cops
break the Jaw.” E.P. added, “They
think they can do whatever they
want and get away with it”

I spoke with Constable John
McDougall who stated; “If the inci-
dent is as sincere us what the people
are stating that it is, then there is the
proper course of action.”

Hopefully people wiil speak out
and lay a complaint against these -
police officers.

Shawna Hail is an Argyle Grade

~ 12 student enrolled in the Video

Production Career Preparation
Program.

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