Niagara Police Brutality…Natural Justice?

The recent civil ruling by Ontario Superior Court that 5 NRP officers, Michael Woodfine, Dino Cirillo, Todd Priddle, James Tallevi and Darren Forbes commited crimes of negligence, false arrest, assault, malicious prosecution and breach of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, is deeply disturbing.

http://www.wellandtribune.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1640440

The response of the NRP Chief Wendy Southall is staggering. She states through an NRP Media release that “Disciplinary charges would be problematic now, because of time limitations in the Police Services Act as well as “notions of fairness and natural justice.”

Natural Justice? Quite clearly 5 NRP officers have broken laws and indulged in gratuitous brutality against a member of the public, this has now been confirmed by a Superior Court judge. Would not Natural Justice in this case have been that the Crown lay Criminal Charges against these thugs? With this statement Wendy Southall is re-enforcing the notion that police officers are above the law. The actions and in-actions in this matter of the Crown, NRP and Wendy Southall are shameful. They have lost all credibility.