(Victoria Times Colonist) – A Nanaimo woman is saying that an RCMP officer punched and choked her in an unprovoked attack.
Camilla McGuire, 53, said she required emergency surgery to place metal plates in her face after a punch that broke bones and loosened teeth.
The case is being investigated by Victoria police, who were called in after accusations of assault were made against Nanaimo RCMP.
McGuire said her family called police on March 2 for help in dealing with her son Lawrence, 20. Her son was suffering from mental health issues, she said.
McGuire, who works with police on a community support team for families and children, said she was concerned about the agitated behaviour of one of the officers.
She said she was walking inside her home to phone dispatch because she did not feel the officer -in his mid-to late 20s -could cope with the situation.
“I took two steps and the officer grabbed my arm. I took another step and he punched me with all the force I have ever felt. I dropped to the ground and was screaming,” said McGuire. “I really believe he flipped. To punch somebody with such force to crush bones in my head, he must have been so angry.”
McGuire said she and her son have been charged with assault against a police officer.
Police are saying little about what happened, including whether a police officer was injured.
“There’s always two sides to every story,” said Victoria police Sgt. Grant Hamilton. “This is an allegation someone’s made and [it is] being investigated.”
The short answer is that society’s institutions are a reflection of society itself. We have become a society that allows high school grads to enter post secondary education without the basic ability to spell or do simple math. We do not allow our children to fail in school, just move them along. We tolerate a legal system that holds its own independence above the wishes of the people and the laws they enact through their elected representatives. We have allowed the systems of justice (small j intended) to minimize the protection of the public in favor of rehabilitation of even the most heinous of career criminals. We move pedophile priests and teachers around instead of “crucifying” them for what they do to the children.
We fail to exercise our democratic rights at the polls, and allow the politicians to manipulate us at every turn. We allow them to obfuscate and use smoke and mirrors to pander to cronies and supporters. We also tend to rush to judgment without full possession of the facts, painting groups of persons with a broad brush, preach tolerance on one hand and deny it on the other. We feel it is our God given right to do anything we want whether or not we should or are fully capable.
We are becoming more and more litigious, making our own foibles the fault of someone else or the fault of “the government”. How often have you heard the phrase “there ought to be a law”? Jurisprudence has all but gutted the more serious offense sections of the Criminal Code of Canada due to moronic decisions devoid of common sense.
There is a tale told in legal circles about the judge in BC, (small j intended) who after hearing how an accused put a plastic bag over the head of his intended victim, wound a coat hanger tightly around the victims neck sealing off the air (and was about to continue his heinous activity), acquitted him of attempted murder because he could not find the requisite “intent” to murder her. In case you wonder what happened, the woman was rescued when the police (RCMP, sorry D) arrived and intervened.
We do not extol nor avidly support those that struggle through the malaise to make society better. This is what we have become.
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