A man was badly beaten by police in Orange Walk on Sunday night - and it was captured on camera. We warn you the images are intense. We spoke with the victim today - 28 year old driver Andres Rodriguez who told u it was all a mix up. He explained that on Sunday night he was carrying passengers from the Free Zone to Orange Walk. He made his final stop in the Louisiana area, bought some groceries and then sat in the vehicle to listen to music. That was when he saw someone shining a flashlight through his window. He sped off because he thought someone was trying to rob him. But when he got to his house he realized that person had followed him and it turned out to be the police. We also spoke to his wife who was present at the time holding their 1 year old baby while she took this video. She told us the police just stormed in and began to beat her husband. In the background, you can hear her frantically screaming and begging the police to stop beating her husband. She told us today that when she tried to talk to the officers and ask them why they were attacking her husband they simply told her not to interfere. She also told us it lasted for about 8 to 10 minutes while police tried - very unprofessionally - to drag him out of the house using a handcuff.
When they finally got him out, the officers took him to the police station and brought a woman in. Police told him that this woman reported that he was following her in his van. Apparently the woman was driving in the same area and when Rodriguez stopped behind her near the store - she got the impression that she was being followed and that is when she called the police and described the van to them. Rodriguez said that he does not even know the woman and wasn't following her at all or even knew she was even there.
Rodriguez was then released with no charges and is now at home recovering. He told us that he got 3 deep cuts to the head and bruises all over his body. He also said that he has trouble eating and has taken 10 sick days from work to fully recover. We called Orange Walk Police and they told us they can't release any information and for us to contact the Police Press Officer - when we did that he gave us the standard response and said that he has no information on it.
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