ASIRT investigating after CPS arrest leaves one man with serious injuries
Posted Aug 27, 2016 5:25 pm.
Last Updated Aug 27, 2016 5:35 pm.
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The provincial police watchdog is investigating after an arrest, involving Calgary police officers, left a man with serious injuries.
The incident happened on July 30th in the 6700 block of Macleod Trail South.
According to a statement from police, an officer attempted to conduct a traffic stop on a vehicle he followed into a parking lot.
The driver of the vehicle stopped, but then got out and started to run.
Other officers were called in for backup, and they were able to find the man a short distance away from the parking lot. He was arrested and taken into custody.
However, during the arrest, the man sustained multiple serious injuries, and the Alberta Director of Law Enforcement was notified.
After reviewing video from a camera in one of the police cruisers, concerns about the officers’ conduct were brought up, and ASIRT was called in to investigate.
No one has been charged in the incident, but two of the officers involved have been suspended with pay, and two others have been assigned to administrative duties.
