What the hell, BC RCMP?

My family has / had two members serve in the RCMP. But every bloody time the RCMP shows up in the news in recent years, it's not for any kind of service that reflects well on the uniform.... WTH, BC RCMP?

Coquitlam RCMP investigating after 2 seniors dragged down stairs by officers

Coquitlam, B.C., police are investigating after a condo annual general meeting that had "gotten out of hand" culminated with RCMP officers dragging two senior citizens down a flight of stairs.

Police were called around 10:32 p.m. and told people were fighting at the meeting held at the Best Western on North Road Thursday evening.

When RCMP officers arrived, the meeting was shut down, but an elderly couple allegedly refused to leave the area.

Video shows the couple appearing to resist attempts to arrest them and subsequently being dragged down a flight of stairs to the hotel's front entrance.

The video also shows a young child, identified as the couple's grandchild, screaming, pleading with police and occasionally flailing at one of the officers.

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Myung Ju Lee described in blunt terms the treatment he received from police.

"He grabbed my arm, twisted it, put it behind my back, then kicked me [down the stairs] from the second floor," he said.

"They pushed and kicked, and I rolled down, down, down ... Then he came down, pushed my chest using the knee. Several times.

"'Are you trying to kill me? Are you trying to kill me?'", I shouted," Ju Lee continued.

"And finally, at the bottom of the stairs, I was handcuffed. 'I'm not a criminal. I'm not a criminal ... I'm a senior. Why do you have me in handcuffs?'' I kept asking. They would not answer."

Ju Lee had a bruise on his cheek, while his wife had scrapes along her back. Both spent the night in hospital, and say they're shocked and angry at what happened.

Victor Kim, a condo owner in the strata, said he was motivated to film the incident because of how poorly he thought police were treating the couple.

"They're in their eighties. Grandparents. They shouldn't have handled it that way," he said.

"[It could have been solved] in a peaceful way..."

(CBC)

Some of the recent incidents in which RCMP in BC have behaved in a less-than stellar fashion:

• No Charges To Be Filed In Connection With Dziekanski's Death: RCMP
• BC Mounties Show their Mettle
• Sober granny charged and treated abusively by police in BC
• Kelowna Cop kicks Man in the face

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