(Postmedia News) – A British Columbia Mountie is suing his own department for injuries suffered during a crowd incident in the Vancouver suburb of Surrey that followed a Vancouver Canucks playoff game two years ago.
Rasheed Mohammed Koya claims in a statement of claim filed in B.C. Supreme Court that the RCMP failed to take adequate steps to control an unruly crowd of about 1,500 that gathered on April 21, 2009, after the Canucks defeated the St. Louis Blues 3-2 in overtime, sweeping the series 4-0.
Koya asserts that he fell while trying to arrest a person and that three people then fell on his right leg. Two days later, Koya had surgery to insert steel into his broken tibia and fibula.
There is inherent danger just about everywhere. However, in policing the levels rise exponentially with the situations encountered, planned or not. Witness the shooting of the officers in Alberta. I would suggest that either this creampuff was ill informed, misinformed or perhaps too obtuse to realize the occupation he chose has its share of unexpected peril. It would be prudent of him to reassess his future.
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Sounds like a opportunist money grab to me. Getting hurt is something that comes with the territory of policing, but with how the whole force is being completely feminized in culture, how quickly this is lost sight of.
But, than again the force doesn’t show the most loyalty to it’s members either. So maybe this works both ways….
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