Paul Gregoire reports for Sydney Criminal Lawyers
The footage of the attack on Lim shows officers, at the slightest sign of resistance from the 78-year-old man, automatically dragging him forward, kicking out his feet from under him and slamming him face-first into the tiled floor of the QVB shopping mall in plain sight of the public.
The officers don’t discuss the approach they’re about to take with the man, which suggests that this is what they’ve been trained to do. And they obviously had an opportunity to show discretion in this instance, so the attack is what the officers must have considered the best course of action to be.
The Redfern Legal Centre released figures in August that showed over the pandemic period, NSW police carried out 4,500 strip searches between July 2020 and May 2022, despite the fact that for vast amounts of that time, people were locked down or were keeping off the streets.
Read the full article (24 November 2022).
