Yes, we have yet another case of, POLICE BRUTALITY! Off of the Front Page Sections, translated…
The Officer Didn't Have His Bodycam on, the Autopsy of the Thief Found Him to Have a Ruptured Spleen, the Head of Station Pulled, the Manager of the Substation, Also Got Reprimanded
The officers, Jeng from the Chien-Ming Subprecinct of Hengchun Police Substation, on the 26th, while conducting a check for scooter theft, because of the thief, Tsai's shouting out insults to him, and refusing to comply with the arrest, Jeng subdued Tsai, took him into the substation, Tsai fell to the ground, and didn't get up, he was taken to the hospital, and died; the autopsy showed, that Tsai had a ruptured spleen, and after further investigations, it was discovered that the officer, Jeng had used the police baton, to hit Tsai in the stomach. And during the time of Jeng enforcing the law, he'd not had his bodycam on, the Pingdong D.A.'s Office believed that Jeng used excessive force, and charged the officer with physical assault causing death, the officer is taken into custody.
The station's director, Dai felt heart wrenched over this, and will file for the suspension of Jeng (age 23), the station manager was given one written reprimand, demoted to a nonmanagerial position, the manager of the substation, a written reprimand, and the station director will then review, if the supervisors had or hadn't been responsible enough. The office of Police Affairs pointed out, that this incident showed a clear neglect of the Pingdong Police's working the cases, and already, made the strict demands to the local police stations to evaluation, and they will pass down the severe reprimands for the supervisors, as well as the officer.
On the 16th, the Chien-Ming Substation took a scooter theft case, Jeng started reviewing the surveillance locally, and zoomed in on Tsai (age 50) as the thief, notified him to the station to give a statement, but Tsai denied the allegations, and left after he'd given a statement.
After his work on the same afternoon, to get more evidence, Jeng went to Tsai's residence, found that Tsai was coming out of his home, tailed him to the location where the scooter was reported to have been stolen, found that Tsai was sitting on the stolen vehicle, Jeng immediately called for backup, notified the investigative squad to help collect the evidence of Tsai's theft.
Close to six in the evening, the police forces came, Tsai denied the allegations, and started, cussing the officers out, Jeng used his police baton to subdue Tsai in the stomach, took him into custody at 6:50, at the time, Tsai could no longer walk on his home, he was cuffed and seated, as he waited to be interrogated, then suddenly, he'd fallen to the ground, the officers immediately started performing CPR, and rushed him to the hospital, by 9:29 in the evening, Tsai was declared, dead.
Based off of understanding, Tsai was from Kaohsiung, because of illness, he'd not been in contact with his own families for long, as he died suddenly at the substation, the families didn't have any objections to his cause of death. The county police asked the Pingdong District Attorney's Office to start working the case and, the autopsy had found, that Tsai sustained a rupture spleen, and it was suspected, that excessive force was used in his, arrest.
Based off of understanding, Jeng and the three other officers thought that the call they were responding to, was ordinary, none had turned their body cams on, and, it was confirmed that all three officers didn't have their cameras turned on, there was no deleting or reformatting of the footage, only the footages of Tsai falling down and dying, and being resuscitated in the substation.
The district attorneys interviewed the three officers involved, two of them didn't lift a hand, they were sent away, while Jeng denied the allegations of using excessive force, and because the physical assault, resulting in death charges, if convicted, there may be the life term, or seven years' sentence at least, the D.A. asked the courts to have the officer taken into custody, the court had, signed off on it.
And so, this is, once again, police BRUTALITY, because, you should've NOT beaten the man you place under arrest to death, beside, it wasn't as if he were reaching for a weapon, and, because the man who'd been caught, stealing a scooter cussed he arresting officer out, which may have contributed to the excessive force that the officer used to beat the man to subdue him, and this is a case of police brutality, but the man who'd stolen that scooter was also to blame for it, because had he NOT stolen the scooter, and cussed the officer out, then, none of this would've, happened.
Regardless, this is still a case of, police brutality.
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