Tonight the father of a Punta Gorda teenager is claiming police brutality after his 16 year old son was allegedly beaten up by two police constables last week.
It happened a week ago when 16 year old Victor Kus was returning from his friends’ home. Via telephone, his father says police pounced on him and beat him for no reason:
Roberto Cus - Father of Victor Cus
"On his way back home there is where the police approached him and they are asking him what he has in his pocket but then he had his cellular phone in his pocket, they said oh no you threw something in the grass but my son is not a smoker, he is a student he is going to school but they don't want to believe that. They hit him with a hard piece of I don't know and my son was still unconscious until 9 o'clock the morning that then he start to realize and said what happened to me. They broke his phone, they broke 3 of his teeth and they bruised his eye."
Jules Vasquez
"Would you like these officers to be criminally charged?"
Roberto Cus
"Of course that's what I'm looking for, I need to go to court. I'm serious, I'm pretty serious of what is happening because up to now my son is still in bed. I have to take him to the hospital, they left my son there unconscious on the ground, just 50 yards away from my home they did this."
Victor Kus was not charged. He knew one of the officers before the incident. His injuries have been classified as Grievous harm. The police professional standards branch is investigating.
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