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Galaki on 24 January 2009

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Alleged victim of police beating says he was threatened with being tasered

VANCOUVER, B.C. - The delivery truck driver who says he was beaten and robbed by three off-duty Vancouver-area police officers claims he was warned about a Taser, and had a racial comment shouted at him.

Feroz (Phil) Khan described the harrowing incident for reporters Friday. Khan said he was first attacked by one man, who was then joined by the other two. "They kicked me in my head, kicked my back, legs, everywhere," Khan said.

"When I asked for help, they told me 'we are the police, you don't need help. If you don't behave, we have a Taser."'

Khan said he told them to go right ahead and use it.

"I told them that I'm half-dead anyways, after you guys beat me up so badly, so you might as well use the Taser and then kill me."

During the attack, Khan claims the men, who allegedly took $200 from him, said, "We don't like brown people."

A Vancouver Police spokesman wasn't immediately available for comment.

Furor over the arrest of three officers forced Vancouver's police chief to issue a statement earlier Friday.

Chief Const. Jim Chu admitted that it's unusual to speak about an ongoing investigation but - for the sake of preserving the public's respect - he wanted to reassure people about the integrity of the process.

"We normally reserve any comments out of respect for the process and a reluctance to say or do anything that might influence the outcome," he said.

Chu said the public needs to know the investigation is being pursued aggressively and fully.

"We are in the process of interviewing witnesses and examining evidence, including any video that may have been recorded. We are asking publicly that any witnesses with information about the incident please call us," his statement said.

The chief said his fellow chiefs in the pertinent jurisdictions are also taking the matter very seriously.

The officers, all from different Vancouver-area police departments, were arrested Wednesday near a downtown hotel.

Two officers, from the Delta and West Vancouver departments, have been reassigned to desk duties while a constable from New Westminster Police has been suspended with pay.

No decision has been made on whether to lay charges in the incident.

B.C.'s Police Complaints Commissioner is conducting a separate investigation into the allegations.



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Galaki on 27 January 2009

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Firoz 'Phil' Khan, a 47-year-old newspaper deliveryman from Surrey, B.C., responds to the news that two policemen who are alleged to have attacked him may face charges. January 26, 2009.

peaking from his Surrey, B.C. home, Phil Khan says he has not been able to sleep since the alleged assault at the hands of three off-duty police officers on Wednesday, January 21, 2009.

A taxi driver, who only wants to be known Yash, describes how he dropped two police officers off at a location in downtown Vancouver where they allegedly joined in an attack on a newspaper deliveryman early Wednesday morning. Jan. 22, 2009.

The site of an alleged assault on a newspaper deliveryman by three off-duty police officers in downtown Vancouver. Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2009

Charges against off-duty officers recommended

Updated: Mon Jan. 26 2009 19:18:38

ctvbc.ca

The Vancouver Police Department is recommending charges against two Lower Mainland police officers in connection with an alleged assault on a newspaper deliveryman in downtown Vancouver last week.

A rookie officer from West Vancouver Police Department may be charged with robbery, and a 38-year-old New Westminster police officer was recommended to be charged with assault and possession of stolen property.

A third officer who was with the pair, a 28-year-old from the Delta Police Department, has not been charged.

The names of the two officers would not be released until charges were laid.

The New Westminster Police department said Wednesday afternoon that their officer continues to be suspended with pay. The other two officers had been placed on desk duties.

Firoz "Phil" Khan, a 47-year-old deliveryman from Surrey, was dropping off newspapers to pay boxes and local hotels in the 600-block of Burrard Street in the early hours of Wednesday, Jan. 21, when he was allegedly kicked and beaten by three men.

Vancouver Police Chief Jim Chu said six investigators from his department spent the weekend interviewing nine witnesses. They also interviewed Khan at length.

Chu said more investigators than usual were put on the case, and he took the unusual step of meeting with them while the investigation was ongoing.

Hate crime charges are not being pursued, said Chu.

He added that the Delta officer may have been trying to stop the attack.

The attack took place in the presence of a taxi driver who took two of the officers from the Roxy nightclub to the location near the Hyatt Hotel, and two City of Vancouver employees, Meatr Chima and Phil Pilon.

Chima and Pilon say the attack was so brutal they actually feared for the victim's life, not to mention their own.

"I wanted to jump in and get the one guy who was doing the punching off of the victim," said Pilon.

"Justice probably won't be served, I don't think so," said Chima.

"If it was a guy like me who did that to that guy there would be justice served, but against those police officers I doubt it. I think these police officers should look at themselves in the mirror and think of what they've done. I mean this is ridiculous."

Speaking from his Surrey home on Friday, Khan says one of the only reasons he's alive is because the two city workers stopped to help.

He said he had suffered serious injuries to his head and internal injuries after the attack. He also lost a filling and chipped a tooth.

"Thank God there was a lot of city workers that I know that clean the streets in downtown Vancouver," he said.

He fears what would happen if it didn't happen on city streets.

"Just imagine this thing happened on a back lane. I would have been dead and buried."

With a report from CTV British Columbia's Leah Hendry.

"suspended with pay", expected...



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colonelstubbs on 27 January 2009

They should be put away for at least 20 for this disgrace



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Dgc1808 on 27 January 2009

15+ years please??



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akuma587 on 27 January 2009

Hey, we gotta make up for the fact that we elected a black President somehow...



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d21lewis on 27 January 2009

F**K the police.

 

 

*edit*  I don't mean that.  The vast majority of police got into it because they wanted to do some good.  There are a few with personal grudges that they want to settle.  Maybe they're racist.  Maybe they were picke on in school.  Maybe they can use the authority for monetary gain.  Whatever.  This minority is making it REALLY hard to have a positive impression of police right now, though.



priteshmodi on 27 January 2009

Except that this appears to have happened in Canada, not America.

I must say though, this is pretty surprising. Being brown myself, and from Canada, I've never experienced anything even remotely like this. The officers should be given some pretty hefty punishments for this. Had a regular civilian commited this act of atrocity, I think it'd be a miracle if they were simply "suspended with pay". That is pretty ridiculous.



izaaz101 on 27 January 2009

I know this guy.........he's not exactly my uncle, but I call him that. He knows my grandpa and dad from back when they were all in Fiji. They went to see him yesterday, but I fell asleep by the time they came back, so I don't know how he is right now.



coolestguyever on 27 January 2009

yeah its cause he's brown, not because they're theives and he had $200 on him. If they had robbed a white guy it would be no big deal.



bouzane on 27 January 2009

Normally I'd simply hate the individuals who carried out this attack but seeing that they were suspended with pay disgusts me. F**k the police are the exact words that come to my mind, I've seen them do some pretty dispicable things and I live in Newfoundland.