The police could beat up, insists expert

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Guillaume St-Louis
Accused

Geneviève Quessy

Thursday, 12 October 2017 23:16

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A police officer who beat up a father of a family who was going to be her baby in the nursery has used good strategies, according to an expert who testified for the defense.

The agent Guillaume St-Louis, the Sûreté du Quebec, Lavaltrie, undergoes his trial for assault with a weapon, assault causing bodily harm and careless use of a weapon.

On December 9, 2014, he stopped Alexandre Hébert because of its tinted windows.

Seeing that the citizen did not have his papers on him, the policeman would have asked her to get out of his car and removing his sunglasses.

Mr. Hébert would have refused to obey. It would then have been sprinkled with Cayenne pepper before being hit in the legs and in the head by the policeman armed with the asp baton.

According to the expert in use of force, Martin Blanchette, who came to testify Thursday in Joliette for his defense, the police officer had reasonable suspicion to believe that its security was threatened by the offender that he had to stop because of the tinted glass.

Agent St-Louis had good reason to fear aggression on the part of the offender when he saw him come out spontaneously from his vehicle, according to him.

The mother of Alexandre Hébert was shocked by hearing the testimony of the expert. “All this for tinted windows. Is it that it was necessary to break up his life for it ? The small remained locked for 20 minutes in the car alone in the middle of winter, my son still has physical effects and it is the anxiety that prevents him from living every day. “

Oral arguments will take place Friday.