Three Lower Mainland police officers arrested in downtown Vancouver

[l2_narain]

Originally Posted by wouwou

You have 3 TRAINED males beating a 47 years old, which part is not fucking bullying?

Ms. Sheri Klassen, please tell me where you send your kids to school so that my friends will do the same to your kids.

You taking this too personal. Did the cops burn your stash when you were with your friends at school? Or got a ticket when you jumped the skytrain that "one" time. Or when you got stupid drunk at ATL you got bang-wagoned to the drunk tank?

These guys are toast. There's no way these guys are going to retain their jobs. Yeah, it's going to suck when they drag their feet going through the process and sit on their asses when their paycheque comes through while 'suspended'. After that, they're screwed.

They can't apply for another police force. Mostly likey going to end up in a job they don't like and relapse on times when they had the juice. The mentally of the general members would be 'fuck them'. They made a uphill battle even harder.

I like to know what was going through their minds when they went through with it (even though it was altered with booze). From my beliefs they had a grudge with something like this guy does.

[Harvey Specter]

Looks like the hate crime rumors are true....

'We don't like brown people'

Catherine Rolfsen, Vancouver Sun
Published: Friday, January 23, 2009

VANCOUVER - A B.C. delivery man allegedly assaulted by three off-duty police officers this week on Friday claimed his assailants made racial comments and threatened to use a Taser on him.

"They told me that we don't like brown people. And I told them I am sorry," Firoz Khan told reporters Friday in front of his Surrey home. "That was the day I was delivering, when President Obama was elected as the U.S. president."

Early Wednesday morning, Vancouver police arrested off-duty police officers from the Delta, New Westminster and West Vancouver forces on suspicion of assault and robbery outside the Hyatt Regency Hotel.

Khan said that as he approached the doors of the hotel, a man standing outside called him.

"He said, 'Come here, you f-ing idiot, get the f- out here,'" Khan said.

The man then asked him for directions.

"I told him, 'Take it easy, let me make this delivery, and I'll tell you how to go.'"

The man persisted, he said. "He said, 'Come here f-ing now.'"

Khan said the man grabbed his jacket, pulled him to the sidewalk, and began to attack him.

About five to seven minutes later, he was joined by two others.

"To my knowledge, I have been beaten, first by one person, and then later by another two," said Khan, 47, who works for Dolphin Delivery. "In total they were three. They kicked me in my head, kicked my back, legs, everywhere."

Khan, who had a white bandage on his head, said he was robbed of $200 in the incident and he was further threatened when he asked for help.

"They told me, 'We are the police, you don't need help. If you don't behave, if you don't do anything, we have a Taser,'" Khan said. "I told them that I am half-dead anyways, after you guys beat me up so badly, so you might as well use the Taser and then kill me so that's the end of the story."

City workers, cab drivers and McDonald's employees saw him on the ground and rushed to help, he recalled.

"I was arrested, I was handcuffed by the police, and then a cab driver told police: 'He is not a suspect. He is a driver, getting beaten.'"

He claimed he could smell alcohol on their breath.

"All three of them were drunk.

"I feel very traumatized. I feel very afraid now."

B.C.'s Attorney General Wally Oppal on Friday asked the public to "keep an open mind."

"Let's wait for all the facts to come out," he told CBC.

Also on Friday, Delta police announced that their officer being investigated in the incident is being reassigned to administrative duties. They did not release the officer's name.

On Thursday, New Westminster Police announced they have suspended their officer with pay. He has been identified as 38-year-old Const. Jeffrey Klassen, and has been with the force for four years.

West Vancouver police said they reassigned their officer to desk duties. That officer has been with force for 18 months.

Sheri Klassen, Klassen's ex-wife, said the three are close friends who graduated together from the Justice Institute of B.C. They were together Tuesday night having a reunion in the downtown entertainment district, she said.

Meanwhile, Vancouver police Chief Jim Chu is calling for people to come forward who may have witnessed the alleged assault. Chu made the unusual move of speaking publicly during an ongoing investigation for "the sake of preserving the public's respect, and belief in the integrity of that process."

"This investigation is being pursued aggressively and fully," said Chu in a written statement. "We are in the process of interviewing witnesses and examining evidence, including any video that may have been recorded."

Chu said there are parallel investigations under the Police Act and chiefs in the affected jurisdictions "are taking the matter very seriously as well."

Khan is expected to be off work for some time, Dave Breen of Dolphin Delivery said Friday.

"I talked to him today and to be honest with you, he doesn't sound that good, as far as mentally," Breen said. "I think he's just still shaken up by the whole thing. So I really don't expect him to be back any time soon."

Breen said Khan has a "spotless record" after more than a decade working for the company.

"We've had a couple things happen around here where somebody's member of the family has been sick, and he's always the person that steps up with some money, pitching in money for somebody," Breen said. "He's a good guy. Never had any problems with him."

With files from Gerry Bellett

[Euro7r]

These 3 dickheads should be jailed, not assigned different duties. They're obviously 3 retards beating up a delivery guy that's just doing his day job.

[deerock]

fucken pigs

[triadik]

haha so stupid

[hung_low]

i like how jim chu referred to the inccident as a brawl rather than a beat down

[suzuka84]

they should post the names and photos of the three cops so the public can watch out for them

[Aetios]

Whatever happened to "to serve and protect"

[johny]

surrey guy was probably delivering drugs and deserved the beat down.

what else could possible need to get delivered from surrey to vancouver that early in the morning.

[Synaptik]

Originally Posted by johny

surrey guy was probably delivering drugs and deserved the beat down.

what else could possible need to get delivered from surrey to vancouver that early in the morning.

6/10 troll

will read again

[Ride]

Originally Posted by johny

surrey guy was probably delivering drugs and deserved the beat down.

what else could possible need to get delivered from surrey to vancouver that early in the morning.

dude u lookin for attention again.

[wouwou]

Originally Posted by l2_narain

You taking this too personal. Did the cops burn your stash when you were with your friends at school? Or got a ticket when you jumped the skytrain that "one" time. Or when you got stupid drunk at ATL you got bang-wagoned to the drunk tank?

These guys are toast. There's no way these guys are going to retain their jobs. Yeah, it's going to suck when they drag their feet going through the process and sit on their asses when their paycheque comes through while 'suspended'. After that, they're screwed.

They can't apply for another police force. Mostly likey going to end up in a job they don't like and relapse on times when they had the juice. The mentally of the general members would be 'fuck them'. They made a uphill battle even harder.

I like to know what was going through their minds when they went through with it (even though it was altered with booze). From my beliefs they had a grudge with something like this guy does.

well, I wasnt taking it personally, but it just ticked me off when someone can blankly say something completely opposite the truth.

But you are right, those 3 are done

[woozzle]

I'm so sick at people hearing cops should be treated the same as civilians regarding this matter...if anything, they should get harsher penalties, they're the law and if they can't uphold them then they should get their heads stuck on a pike...so much for role models

and I don't mind getting my ass kicked and wallet stolen as long as we see some changes in the bureaucracy. Restructuring FTW!!!

[BoneThug]

Originally Posted by RFlush

It will die out soon.

Remember when that police officer was speeding through a red light without her sirens on and slammed into a taxi, making the taxi to flip over into a fence. The police officer claimed she was going under 60km/h and witnesses stated that she did not have her siren on. After the first week, nothing more in the news about the results.

What about the off duty police officer who hit that kid in Delta. The police officer who was involved in the YVR incident. Nothing more in the news.

Yet when a police officer dies, they have a hockey tournament in his name every year and lots of media attention.

Just the way the world works

what was her name?

[alex.w *//]

it would probably get off the media soon, but i don't think the the investigation would stop right after the media attention is gone.

[johny]

after all the drunk driving cops, and now this.

they should make a new rule saying cops can't consume any alcohol 24/7 365 days a year, except durring their acquired vacation time (3 weeks a year or what ever they get)

since technically police are on duty 100% of the time. but only paid while on shift.

[Gh0stRider]

VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) - Vancouver Police are recommending charges against only two of the three Lower Mainland police officers involved in a high profile fight with a newspaper delivery man downtown last week. VPD are recommending charges of robbery against an officer from West Vancouver, and charges of assault and possession of stolen property against an officer from New Westminster.

The third officer involved is from Delta, but VPD are not recommending any charges against him, and say there is little evidence to proceed with charges against him. In fact, VPD Chief Jim Chu says that Delta officer may have tried to intervene and stop the fight.

The VPD says they are not pursuing this as a hate crime, as they say there isn't enough evidence. The names of the officers won't be released until the Crown approves the charges.

[Harvey Specter]

It's basically that one cop who started the fight and imo is the only one that should be dealt with harshly.

[Ludepower]

Where is the video? Let me guess...camera wasn't functioning that night?

What do these charges mean? Just a slap on a wrist and then back on duty?

[Harvey Specter]

Cops have the tape and i'm sure it'll be released or "leaked" to the media soon.

[Zerius]

the paper prolly had some awesome coupons that they wanted to clip