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Police Beat Up Boy “For Nothing”
posted (September 24, 2013)
Kadeesh Bernard was picked up by Belmopan Police on Independence night, thrown into a cell and beaten up. His mother went to find out what was the matter and she was then roughed up by the police. They came to our studio yesterday to tell us of what they say is an abuse of power by police - who could not say why the young man had been detained. Kadeesh, who lost two teeth in the ordeal has difficulty speaking because of the injuries to his mouth, but he told us what happened - or at least the part he can remember:..

Kadeesh Bernard
"Sir, all I remember is that 3 policemen came into the cell, two of them hold me down and the other police choked me. I couldn't do anything. I was trying to cry out for my mother but I couldn't."

"All I remember was that I was getting up from off the ground and blood was in my mouth and I couldn't speak."

"One of the persons that was in the cell with me told me that they slam my head against the wall and then they drag me towards another cell and hold my face towards the ground. That is why my face is like this."

Mother of Kadeesh Bernard
"Look at my child's face. It doesn't surprise me. The way they are behaving right now, it doesn't surprise me at all. You can't put thing cross anybody at all."

The family says they will make a complaint to the police internal affairs department.



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