Willow Kinloch and the Victoria Police
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The video is disturbing. - No, it is more than disturbing. It is gut-wrenching and nauseating. - The surveillance video show a fifteen year old girl, Willow Kinloch, pushed against a jail cell wall, forced to the ground and handcuffed. Then her feet are tied and she is tethered to the cell door. And she is left for hours:
“…Commissioner Dirk Ryneveld said he was disturbed when he saw the videotape of police handcuffing Willow Kinloch, tying her feet with a leash and leaving her tethered to a cell door for four hours.
The incident, which took place in May 2005, needs to be looked at very carefully, he said.”
link: 2 investigations ordered following alleged police abuse of Victoria teen
Ms Kinloch was fifteen. She had been drinking. She was no angel. However, when this incident took place, she could not have been a hundred pounds (forty five kilograms). In comparison to the police personnel involved, Ms Kinloch looks diminutive. Ms Kinloch is not blameless in this but she certainly did not merit the treatment that she received.
In serving and protecting, the police must serve and protect Ms Kinloch too. They did not do so. Many Canadians have seen the video and have said that it is tantamount to torture. An investigation will exam this police behaviour and determine if the level of impropriety falls that low.
One of the most famous phrase from the United States Supreme Court was used by Justice Potter Stewart. In a decision about obscenity, Justice Potter Stewart said “I know it when I see it“. - I have seen the surveillance video. And the treatment to which Ms Kinloch was subjected was obscene and degrading.
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One Comment
Rick
March 29th, 2008
at 4:49pm
It’s disgusting. If a parent did that to their own child the Victoria Police would be all over them for Child Abuse. But it’s ok when they do it?
The fact that they dropped the assault charge (Which apparently consisted of a child swearing and kicking her shoe below knee level into a corner - normal teen behaviour) as soon as they realised the video was being submitted as evidence.
The officer who apparently ‘felt threatened’ by this child must have been 20 stone and was easily able to assault the child by throwing her against the wall before the other three (!) officers felt they had to burst in and tie her up.
If you were 15 had been taken back to the station after you couldn’t get home and then some officer ordered you to take off your bra - (why? She was hardly suicidal) and shoes (normally it’s just laces) you could forgive the scared child for acting irrationally.
And then why leave her for four hours without checking - if you have her remove clothing thinking she may kill herself you at least check every 15 minutes but no.
I think these officers need firstly, to be sacked form the force, secondly to sign an child crime offenders register, thirdly the one telling her to remove her clothing needs to be psychologically examined to check there aren’t any sinister undertones with her behaviour and lastly, in an ideal world, all officers involved should be slammed against the wall, thrown to the floor by four people, tied up and thethered in the same way for the sam time span.
I hope Willow wins her case, can cash in on her story gets jail terms for each of those abusers. This wasn’t serving and protecting this was abuse of a child.