But an education in police brutality, not higher learning is probably what awaits Arzu in the Ombudsman's chair. He's sure to get a lot of complaints about that just like we do. One came in this afternoon where the family of 20 year-old Mecshack Flores claimed that officers from the Gang Suppression Unit brutalized him when he was arrested for robbery.
According to police, at around 6:30 p.m. on December 27, 33 year-old Leroy Cassasola, a salesman for Santiago Castillo Limited, was on Central American Boulevard, and he had just exited Tommy's Store.
That's when he was approached by 2 men, one of whom was armed with a firearm, and robbed him of just over 19 thousand, five hundred dollars in cash, which belonged to the company.
The men got away, but police say that they investigated, and they charged Flores for the robbery.
Well, his family came to 7News today to tell us that the GSU officers brutalized him before they charged him.
Here's how they described it:
Daniel Ortiz
"Tell us about the GSU Officers, and your nephew."
Florence Horn - Aunt of Accused
"Well, they beat him bad. Sir, my nephew can hardly walk. They threw clorax in his face; they covered his face with a black cloth, and they say he can hardly walk. He fainted 3 times. How do we know? That's because the persons who the did it to as well, in front of him, told us, and then he himself told me. He said, 'Aunty, they beat me bad.' They already detained him, why beat him? They have no right to beat him."
Daniel Ortiz
"Was he resisting in any way?"
Florence Horn
"No, he wasn't resisting, because they went for him from home, they beat him from there as well."
Daniel Ortiz
"And what are they saying that he did?"
Florence Horn
"They said that he did a robbery with a firearm."
Daniel Ortiz
"Do you guys believe that he that he is involved in any robbery?"
Florence Horn
"No, he is not involved with that. We know that he won't do that. He is not a person to go rob anybody, now if they touched his mother, that's a different thing. But, to rob, he isn't in that world."
Daniel Ortiz
"And you guys could vouch for that 100%."
Florence Horn
"That's right."
Flores was arraigned today in the Magistrate's Court on the charge of robbery, where he was remanded because the crime was committed with a firearm.
He will be brought back to court on March 3, 2013.
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