‘接下来我知道我会被嘲笑：’新斯科舍省警察审查委员会听证会在2019年在Quinpool Road进行的逮捕

A man who was tased on a busy city street more than two years ago said Wednesday he didn’t know why he was being arrested.

克林顿·弗雷泽（Clinton Fraser）认为，他在2019年12月4日没有做错任何事情，他在达特茅斯（Dartmouth）举行了新斯科舍省警察审查委员会的听证会。但是哈利法克斯地区警察已将他拉过来，并为他罚款不安地换车。

“Next thing I know I’m getting tased and I don’t remember anything after that,” Fraser testified on Wednesday.

“Only thing I had in my hand was a phone.”

A video of the traffic stop,posted on Twitterby reporter Julia-Simone Rutgers after the incident showed Fraser being tackled to the ground by a group of officers, and one of them using a Taser on him as he screamed in agony. Police旋转活动那天晚上，声称弗雷泽将被指控殴打警察。他从未被指控，交通票被扔掉了。

去年七月，the Halifax Examiner reportedthat the officer who tased and arrested Fraser, Const. Nicole Green, was appealing a disciplinary decision that found she was in the wrong:

哈利法克斯审查员获得的法院文件表明，CF [审查员当时没有命名弗雷泽]对逮捕人员格林提起申诉，于2019年12月9日触发了内部调查。

哈利法克斯地区警察Sgt. Ross Burt investigated the complaint, and then Inspector Derrick Boyd, the “Delegated Disciplinary Authority” for HRP, issued a decision on November 5, 2020. Boyd found Green had breached the code of conduct for officers contained in the Police Act regulations, amounting to three disciplinary defaults. Specifically, Boyd said Green breached all three parts of s.24(7):

（7）以以下任何方式滥用权限的成员犯有纪律处分违约：

(a) making an arrest without good or sufficient cause;

（b）使用不必要的力量或残酷地对待任何囚犯或其他人可以在职责过程中与之接触的人；

(c) unlawfully exercising authority as a member.

As a penalty, Green was ordered to take de-escalation training and she was deducted eight hours pay.

格林于2020年12月向省警察申诉专员，现任前法官帕特里克·柯伦（Patrick Curran）提出了纪律上诉。专员决定是否向警察审查委员会的听证会提出上诉。在这种情况下，Curran决定不这样做。

At the time, the case was headed to the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia for judicial review. Green’s lawyer, Nasha Nijhawan, had filed the request, seeking to overturn Curran’s decision. But according to Green’s current lawyer, Brian Bailey, Curran changed his mind after watching video of the arrest, allowing the matter to proceed to a Police Review Board hearing, which started on Wednesday.

弗雷泽（Fraser）没有参加听证会，这意味着他不希望对绿色施加更严厉的处罚。但是他被传唤，勉强地站了起来，度过了下午，恢复了2019年12月的活动，不得不观看事件的视频。

弗雷泽（Fraser）告诉董事会，他那天刚上班，然后去了奎因普尔路（Quinpool Road）和修道院巷（Monastery Lane）拐角处的银行兑现支票。离开银行后，他回到了白色的皮卡车上，然后右转到奎因普尔（Quinpool）。右车道上有一辆建筑卡车，所以他不得不合并左车道。

Fraser said a big truck let him in, but the driver of a small vehicle tried to enter the lane at the same time. Fraser said the passenger in the smaller vehicle got out and started banging on the hood of his truck. Then the police flashed their lights and activated their sirens, signalling for Fraser to pull over.

He did so, in front of East Coast Bakery on Quinpool. Surveillance video from the shop’s front window shows Fraser pull up, followed by a police cruiser, and then the smaller vehicle, which pulls in front of him.

较小的车辆的乘客，一辆丰田Yaris，走出了车辆，接近弗雷泽的皮卡。军官告诉每个人都回到自己的车辆中。该视频具有音频，但很难说出所说的话。

The couple driving the Yaris accused Fraser of hitting their vehicle, along with the construction truck parked near the corner of Quinpool and Monastery. Fraser said he hadn’t hit anything, trying to show the officers there was no corresponding damage to his vehicle.

在视频中，可以看到弗雷泽（Fraser）使用他的翻盖手机拍摄卡车的照片，然后走出屏幕拍照。他说，被捕后，这些照片被删除了。同时，Yaris的驾驶员和乘客已经离开了现场，没有被票。

警察告诉弗雷泽回到卡车again, he does, and then they come back and give him a ticket. He gets out of the truck again and starts walking toward the officers. They appear to motion for him to get back in the truck, he holds his hands up, Green grabs one, and another officer grabs Fraser from behind.

“They jumped me,” Fraser said.

During cross examination, Bailey, Green’s lawyer, suggested Fraser was yelling, pointing “aggressively” at the couple in the Yaris and the police, being uncooperative, and he said he had a pen in his hand threatening officers. During direct examination from HRM lawyer Ted Murphy, Fraser said he wasn’t angry at the police, and he wasn’t yelling, he just has a deep, loud voice.

“我大声说话，仅此而已。我确实大声说话。我不需要时大喊。”他说。

Bailey suggested Fraser had in fact hit both vehicles, and a lack of damage on his own wasn’t proof of the contrary. Bailey said the mirror of Fraser’s truck hit the mirror of the Yaris, a much shorter vehicle.

“That’s impossible,” Fraser said. “I can’t see that.”

Becoming increasingly agitated with Bailey’s argumentative line of questioning, Fraser testified he couldn’t remember much from the incident. He said he might not have had his phone in his hand at the time of the arrest, but he was sure he didn’t have a pen, as Bailey alleged.

The cross examination was mostly fruitless, serving only to further traumatize Fraser, who has nothing to gain. It’s worth noting Fraser had no legal representation at the hearing, while Green’s lawyer ispaid for with tax money。

The board, comprising Jean McKenna, Peter Mancini, and John Withrow, also heard testimony on Wednesday from Staff Sgt. Ross Burt, who investigated the complaint. He outlined the interviews he conducted and said he looked at the documentation from the arrest.

伯特在逮捕过程中使用了TASER或“导电能量武器”。

The first person to testify was Gerald Lonergan, the owner of East Coast Bakery, who witnessed bits and pieces of the incident between filling bagel orders and gossiping with customers in his shop. He also supplied police with one of three video angles of the incident — the one most relied on during Wednesday’s proceedings.

The other two videos are the angle from across the street shown in the screenshot at the top of this post, and an angle from beside the bakery.

The hearing continues on Thursday, when the board is expected to hear testimony from Green and another one of the responding officers, Const. Josh Desmond.

另外两名军官无法作证：一个受伤，另一名已离开HRP。

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