Tonight 29 year old Albert Ramirez is in the KHMH hoping that he won't lose an eye. The Belize City resident was beaten at a bar on Orange Street named Picasso on Saturday night - and he claims it's an off duty policeman who did it. His mother, Inez told us that her son had gone into the bar to sell something:..
Inez Ramirez, Mother of Beaten Man
"He went into this bar to sell something. When the police came, they ask him what was he doing there. 'I am the police, you have to respect me.' My son said sir I am not doing anything. The police say 'don't tell me anything.' The police had a Belikin pint in his hand and he whap my son in his face with the pint. Now my son eye is damaged. My son is lying in bed at the hospital. We don't now yet if will lose his eye. But I pray to God for my son not to lose his eye. How the police would have felt if it was him. How his mother would have felt if he was laying down in a hospital bed right now. The police abuse people. Before they protect us, they abuse us. But please stop it because you hurt lots of parents out there. Please I beg."
Jules Vasquez
"Is he able to see right now?"
Inez Ramirez, Mother of Beaten Man
"He can't see anything yet. This morning I went to the hospital again, because it looks like he have to take another operation. I have to talk with the doctor to hear what he will say. A Good Samaritan passed and called an ambulance. They left my son right there like he is a dog. Somebody yelled out please leave this young man because you will kill him. And that's how they left my son. But that will not go away like that. Trust me. If my son did something wrong, they could arrest him, but why do they have to whop him? - Why do they have to hurt him? That is the question to the police who did it."
Inez Ramirez says she won't make a formal complaint at the Professional Standards Branch because it is a waste of time. Police say they have no report of the incident.
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