Posted: Mar 5, 2007, 4:02 AM
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If they would use the revenues to fund police and lower taxes a bit (preferable middle class or business income taxes) that would be great.
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Or a gaint fund to help pay for the lawsuits regarding corruption and brutality the asshats at the EPS have faced on a weekly basis for the past couple of years.
How can you trust people like this?
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OFFICERS ABUSED LAWYER'S SON: LAWSUIT CLAIMS
Matt Engel Strip-Searched But Not Charged EDMONTON -- Edmonton police officers detained and strip-searched the son of Edmonton defence lawyer Tom Engel after they threw away the evidence -- a marijuana cigarette -- of his alleged crime, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday. The statement of claim also alleges officers physically and emotionally abused Matt Engel, never read him his rights and refused the 22-year-old's repeated requests to call a lawyer. After the strip search, he was released with no charges. "The level of force used by the defendants ... was wholly unnecessary and excessive, and was motivated by their animosity towards ( Matt Engel's ) father and their own personal amusement rather than any legitimate law enforcement purpose," the lawsuit states. The lawsuit's allegations have not been proven in court and no statement of defence has been filed. In the statement of claim, Matt Engel admits he was smoking a marijuana cigarette in an alley behind the Strathcona Hotel on Feb. 25, 2005, when he was approached by three police officers. One of the officers asked for the cigarette and Engel gave it to them. Edmonton police have the discretion whether to lay charges for small amounts of marijuana and the lawsuit states the officers decided not to charge Engel and threw away the marijuana cigarette. But after discarding the marijuana, one of the officers asked Engel to submit to a search. He initially declined but then relented and emptied his pockets, including his identification. Once the police officers realized they were dealing with the son of Tom Engel, who is well known to police in Edmonton, it is alleged his head was slammed against the wall, he was handcuffed and one of the officers pressed his thumb under Engel's ear in a deliberate attempt to cause pain. Engel was taken to the Strathcona police station. At the station, one of the officers "made a deliberate show of putting on rubber gloves for the sole purpose of intimidating and frightening Engel and causing him to believe that he was about to be subjected to a highly intrusive body cavity search." Engel asked to call a lawyer but his request was denied, the lawsuit says. All his clothes, with the exception of his underwear, was removed. The strip search ended when another police officer intervened, the lawsuit states. Engel's clothes were returned to him, he was locked in a cell and then released without charge. After learning of the incident, Tom Engel made a Freedom of Information request for all documents related to his son's arrest. In direct response to the FOI request, one of the officers named in the statement of claim created a memo for his commanding officer outlining his version of events. In the April 29, 2005, memo, Const. Bill Allen said he and two officers saw a male who appeared to be serving as a lookout for another male who was smoking what he believed to be a joint. The smoker threw the joint down. "From the start the male seemed to come across as not being happy to being dealt with by police," the memo states. "He questioned the fact that we were speaking to him at all about the drugs and from his standpoint the possession of drugs was not against the law." Allen said Engel was told he was under arrest for the possession of drugs and he would be searched. Engel was also told he would be searched for other drugs unless he voluntarily handed over any drugs he may be holding. "Engel said he would not hand over anything and that he would not allow a search without being able to exercise his right to speak to legal council prior to the search," the memo says. Engel was taken to the police station and, according to Allen, was informed "the search would take place with or without his approval. "He then assisted in the search of his person which did not produce any further drugs." Engel was then asked if he wanted to speak to a lawyer or if he wished to leave, and he opted to leave. Erika Norheim, the lawyer for Matt Engel, noted that Allen's memo was created from memory more than two months after the arrest since he acknowledges he took no notes.
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