New probe after second violent arrest video involving Quebec City police goes viral
Global News
The new probe involves the violent arrest of a white male that occurred Friday evening outside a restaurant in the city's Ste-Foy district.
Quebec City police are facing a second independent probe into their conduct, following the release of another violent arrest video from last weekend, the province’s public security minister said Wednesday.
Five Quebec City police officers were suspended with pay Tuesday following the violent arrest of two Black teens caught on video in Old Quebec early Saturday. The police’s ethics commissioner is investigating.
On Wednesday, Public Security Minister Geneviève Guilbault announced a second investigation by the police ethics commissioner. The new probe, she said, involved the violent arrest of a white male that occurred Friday evening outside a restaurant in the city’s Ste-Foy district. The arrest was also caught on video.
A spokeswoman for the Quebec City police said three of the five suspended officers were involved in both violent arrests.
Guilbault said the video relating to the arrest at the restaurant is worrying, adding that the event must also be examined independently. Both arrests are also being investigated internally by the Quebec City police department.
The arrest at the restaurant came just hours before Quebec City police were involved in the violent arrest of two young Black people early Saturday morning. Video circulating online of that arrest showed officers hitting, dragging and pinning at least two Black youth on the ground outside a nightclub.
One of those in the video has been identified as Pacifique Niyokwizera, 18. His lawyer, Fernando Belton, says he also represents a second teen, a 16-year-old girl, who was also on the video being dragged by her hair by police.
Belton said in an interview Wednesday that neither of his clients have been charged, adding that they are looking into filing a lawsuit against the city.
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