We know police have been cracking down on quality of life crimes, but on Friday, 28 year old Sherwin Baizar felt the brunt of it. Police reportedly caught him riding contrary to traffic, or "up stop" on Collet Canal near the Michael Finnegan market. They arrested him for causing a bicycle to proceed on a one way street. But, they say he also resisted arrest assaulted a police officer and used insulting words on the police. And that, it seems earned him some raw street justice - when police put a beating on him. He said during his ride to the station the officers began beating him for no reason. Today he gave 7news his account of what happened.
Sherwin Baizer - Allege Police Brutality
"On Friday the 24th, I went to the market to buy vegetables on my bike and like the men (police) were coming on the lane the same time I am going to a stall to buy. They came out and search me and they didn't find anything, so the sergeant said "go through" but this next police officer named "Aldal Berto Baton," he said no, he will take me in better and he grab me on my shirt and started to drag me and so I told him that I didn't like his son to drag about this place. So while they were trying to handcuff me, I drop the $7 that I came to buy with at the market, and I was trying to pick that up, I forgot about them still trying to hold me. So they manage to handcuff me and they put me in the car and this police named Andy Rodriguez, he handcuff me from behind and he started to choke me with his left hand and put my head between the two police officers and started to pound me with his right hand, so the other two police men started to pound me also - 3 of them. When they finish pounding me I had injuries to my head, swelling in the eyes, nose and the neck and I was bleeding through my nose. When they finish do their dirty deeds now, they took me to "Boots" police station and the officer "Aldal Berto Baton" got a hose and wash off the blood from my nose and my eye. Then when they took me to the hospital to take an x-ray, they told the doctor that I have allergies and that's why my eyes look like that. Now when I finished with the x-ray, they didn't give me the x-ray nor my medication. They just send me back in the "pisshouse." I was locked up from Friday because I slept at Raccoon Street Police Station the night and then bring me back at "Boots" police station the next morning and they took me to Queen Street Police Station after that. But they were saying that I assaulted one of them. The whole of Belize could see how my eyes look and that I was assaulted by 3 of them."
Baizar, who is a musician, pleaded not guilty to all charges and received bail of 1500 dollars. He will re-appear on December 17th.
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