Allegations of police brutality rocked the London, Ontario community when an 18-year-old student at Fanshawe College was arrested and sustained a fractured orbital under his left eye.
The incident was also captured on tape by a local television station. A Channel had a crew out that night to report on the chaotic events of frosh week. The unedited film shows a handcuffed student being asked a question by a plainclothes police officer. Although the situation appeared to be in control and the student was responding to the question without struggling, the officer kneed the student in the face.
Under provincial law, the London Police Service was forced to notify Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit about the injuries suffered by the student.
More than 600 people at Fanshawe College have been arrested in the first 10 days of the academic year.
