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The Maniwaki man shot in the face during a courthouse altercation with a special constable is recovering in a Gatineau hospital as more questions are raised about the actions of security officials.
Steven Bertrand, 18, is out of danger and is “getting better and better every day,” according to an update provided by his mother, Julie, two days after the shooting incident.
Meanwhile, the special constable who was beaten with his own telescopic baton during the scuffle is also improving. Quebec’s police watchdog, the Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes (BEI), said the special constable has been released from hospital.
His name has not been made public.
The BEI — Quebec’s equivalent to Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit — said it is continuing to review the events that led to the shooting.
A video of the event has been viewed more than two million times.
The youth who filmed the altercation was arrested Friday in connection with a Facebook post in which he sought the name of the constable so that he could also be shot.
The youth, who cannot be named under provisions of the Youth Criminal Justice Act, was charged with intimidation.
Julie Bertrand suggested Friday in a Facebook post that security guards could have prevented the incident from escalating had they helped to subdue her agitated son.
Instead, her son and the special constable became locked in a struggle in the courthouse waiting room. From what she could see, Bertrand said, her son was hit several times and then managed to grab the constable’s telescopic baton and hit him with it. The constable then pulled his firearm.
“You want to shoot me, shoot me,” Bertrand quoted her son as saying. She said he stood up with baton and was shot.
Bertrand said she was not allowed to assist her son while he was lying, bloodied, on the ground.
In the video, the special constable can be heard asking several security guards for help, but no one offers any effective assistance.
Bertrand said the situation could have been controlled had the security guards assisted in bringing her son under control.
Some of the five guards in the video appear to be from a private security firm, Garda, which is believed to have a security contract at the Maniwaki courthouse. At least three are wearing GardaWorld uniforms.
One Ottawa security guard with experience working in the Ottawa courthouse said the incident exposes the difference between armed and trained provincial constables, and the private guards who are supposed to do less confrontational work.
“It’s a budgeting issue: They’re trying to cut costs by having fewer special constables on site so they hire private security contractors,” he said.
Private security companies train some but not all of their employees in the use of force, he said. Some carry handcuffs.
The guard asked not to be named as he still works in security.
He said it seemed odd that some of the guards “were just standing around,” and it appeared that they were unsure of their roles. “It’s just a lack of experience. They are not sure whether they should get involved and they are hesitating, and that’s the result — you have one man wrestling with another man to get him into custody.”
GardaWorld didn’t respond to questions.
Quebec’s Ministry of Public Safety and Ministry of Justice also refused comment, saying it doesn’t want to discuss the issue during the BEI investigation.
The BEI was established in June 2016 to investigate deaths and serious injuries at the hands of police. Prior to the BEI’s existence, cases involving police-involved injuries or deaths were investigated by another police agency within the province.
The arm’s-length agency reports to the province’s minister of public safety, and has the status of a police force.
A final report for each investigation is submitted to Quebec’s director of criminal and penal prosecutions, which will decide, based upon the report, whether criminal charges against the police officer are warranted.
With files from Tom Spears and Aedan Helmer
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Steven Bertrand, 18, is out of danger and is “getting better and better every day,” according to an update provided by his mother, Julie, two days after the shooting incident.
Meanwhile, the special constable who was beaten with his own telescopic baton during the scuffle is also improving. Quebec’s police watchdog, the Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes (BEI), said the special constable has been released from hospital.
His name has not been made public.
The BEI — Quebec’s equivalent to Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit — said it is continuing to review the events that led to the shooting.
A video of the event has been viewed more than two million times.
The youth who filmed the altercation was arrested Friday in connection with a Facebook post in which he sought the name of the constable so that he could also be shot.
The youth, who cannot be named under provisions of the Youth Criminal Justice Act, was charged with intimidation.
Julie Bertrand suggested Friday in a Facebook post that security guards could have prevented the incident from escalating had they helped to subdue her agitated son.
Instead, her son and the special constable became locked in a struggle in the courthouse waiting room. From what she could see, Bertrand said, her son was hit several times and then managed to grab the constable’s telescopic baton and hit him with it. The constable then pulled his firearm.
“You want to shoot me, shoot me,” Bertrand quoted her son as saying. She said he stood up with baton and was shot.
Bertrand said she was not allowed to assist her son while he was lying, bloodied, on the ground.
In the video, the special constable can be heard asking several security guards for help, but no one offers any effective assistance.
Bertrand said the situation could have been controlled had the security guards assisted in bringing her son under control.
Some of the five guards in the video appear to be from a private security firm, Garda, which is believed to have a security contract at the Maniwaki courthouse. At least three are wearing GardaWorld uniforms.
One Ottawa security guard with experience working in the Ottawa courthouse said the incident exposes the difference between armed and trained provincial constables, and the private guards who are supposed to do less confrontational work.
“It’s a budgeting issue: They’re trying to cut costs by having fewer special constables on site so they hire private security contractors,” he said.
Private security companies train some but not all of their employees in the use of force, he said. Some carry handcuffs.
The guard asked not to be named as he still works in security.
He said it seemed odd that some of the guards “were just standing around,” and it appeared that they were unsure of their roles. “It’s just a lack of experience. They are not sure whether they should get involved and they are hesitating, and that’s the result — you have one man wrestling with another man to get him into custody.”
GardaWorld didn’t respond to questions.
Quebec’s Ministry of Public Safety and Ministry of Justice also refused comment, saying it doesn’t want to discuss the issue during the BEI investigation.
The BEI was established in June 2016 to investigate deaths and serious injuries at the hands of police. Prior to the BEI’s existence, cases involving police-involved injuries or deaths were investigated by another police agency within the province.
The arm’s-length agency reports to the province’s minister of public safety, and has the status of a police force.
A final report for each investigation is submitted to Quebec’s director of criminal and penal prosecutions, which will decide, based upon the report, whether criminal charges against the police officer are warranted.
With files from Tom Spears and Aedan Helmer
查看原文...
