Spartacus
05-16-2009, 08:39 AM
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/duty+officer+investigated+airport+road+rage+incide nt/1592244/story.html
OTTAWA — Ottawa police have confirmed they are investigating the actions of an off-duty officer in an alleged assault at the airport on Monday afternoon, in which an Ottawa Airport taxi driver suffered a broken wrist and index finger.
Sami Aldoboni, 43, said an aggressive male driver in a grey Nissan Xterra SUV tailgated him for nine kilometres as he returned to the airport traveling southbound on the Airport Parkway.
Aldoboni said the man followed him all the way into the taxi drivers’ parking lot a short distance from the terminal and when both men got out of their cars. Aldoboni said the man shouted racial insults at him, shoved him to the ground and proceeded to beat him before other taxi drivers intervened.
Mo Atiya, a 24-year-old driver who was the first to intervene, said the man applied a “tactical arm lock,” which appeared to break Aldoboni’s wrist. Atiya said when he confronted the man he showed him a police ID card.
Staff Sgt. Denis Cleroux, head of the police’s Professional Standards Unit, said his section is looking into what happened, but the results of the investigation won’t be known for some time.
It’s important police “do the right thing,” Cleroux said, by taking all the necessary steps to ensure a complete investigation.
Cleroux said the unit will be interviewing as many witnesses as possible and investigating all aspects of what happened.
“You have to take time to do this right.”
The Special Investigations Unit, the independent civilian body that investigates incidents involving police and civilians whenever serious injury or death occurs, is not currently involved in the investigation. A spokesman for the unit said the SIU only investigate incidents involving off-duty police officers if the officer uses his or her position as a police officer in committing the alleged offence.
A spokesman for Police Chief Vern White said the investigation into the incident will also look at the actions of the on-duty police officers who responded.
Several witnesses to the incident said when police were called, the man showed the first two responding officers what appeared to be an ID card. The officers did not cuff the man, and witnesses said they handed him their pen and notebook and he filled out his own statement.
Witnesses also said the two officers then got in the backseat of the man’s vehicle and he drove away.
The police and the officers’ union said the officer will remain on active duty during the investigation.
And you know what? The cop will not be charged with anything. :thumbsup:
OTTAWA — Ottawa police have confirmed they are investigating the actions of an off-duty officer in an alleged assault at the airport on Monday afternoon, in which an Ottawa Airport taxi driver suffered a broken wrist and index finger.
Sami Aldoboni, 43, said an aggressive male driver in a grey Nissan Xterra SUV tailgated him for nine kilometres as he returned to the airport traveling southbound on the Airport Parkway.
Aldoboni said the man followed him all the way into the taxi drivers’ parking lot a short distance from the terminal and when both men got out of their cars. Aldoboni said the man shouted racial insults at him, shoved him to the ground and proceeded to beat him before other taxi drivers intervened.
Mo Atiya, a 24-year-old driver who was the first to intervene, said the man applied a “tactical arm lock,” which appeared to break Aldoboni’s wrist. Atiya said when he confronted the man he showed him a police ID card.
Staff Sgt. Denis Cleroux, head of the police’s Professional Standards Unit, said his section is looking into what happened, but the results of the investigation won’t be known for some time.
It’s important police “do the right thing,” Cleroux said, by taking all the necessary steps to ensure a complete investigation.
Cleroux said the unit will be interviewing as many witnesses as possible and investigating all aspects of what happened.
“You have to take time to do this right.”
The Special Investigations Unit, the independent civilian body that investigates incidents involving police and civilians whenever serious injury or death occurs, is not currently involved in the investigation. A spokesman for the unit said the SIU only investigate incidents involving off-duty police officers if the officer uses his or her position as a police officer in committing the alleged offence.
A spokesman for Police Chief Vern White said the investigation into the incident will also look at the actions of the on-duty police officers who responded.
Several witnesses to the incident said when police were called, the man showed the first two responding officers what appeared to be an ID card. The officers did not cuff the man, and witnesses said they handed him their pen and notebook and he filled out his own statement.
Witnesses also said the two officers then got in the backseat of the man’s vehicle and he drove away.
The police and the officers’ union said the officer will remain on active duty during the investigation.
And you know what? The cop will not be charged with anything. :thumbsup: