Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Edmonton police officer guilty of assaulting man


EDMONTON - An Edmonton police department officer has been found guilty of two counts of assault, nine months after being convicted of assault in an unrelated matter.
Const. Haoyin Zheng was found guilty Monday of the assault charges in provincial court.
Police Chief Rod Knecht will conduct a review to determine if a professional standards investigation is warranted into Zheng’s conduct, department spokeswoman Patrycia Thenu aid.
Zheng is on active duty, but has been restricted to administrative duties since 2008.
Zheng, 31, responded to a residential call near 12th Avenue and 156th Street around 4 a.m. on June 6, 2010. During that call, Zheng used excessive force to subdue a man under arrest, then continued that force after the man was handcuffed.
The man was injured, but didn’t require hospitalization.
In February, Zheng was given a conditional discharge for a December 2008 assault that originally restricted him to administrative duties. He was also sentenced to 12 months probation.
Zheng was found guilty of assaulting a handcuffed suspect in the back of a police cruiser because the man refused to say where the keys to a stolen vehicle were located. That assault was severe enough that the cruiser rocked side-to-side, but the man was not seriously hurt.
At the time, a judge found the man was handcuffed and physically co-operating with police and was no threat to the public or four officers at the scene.
Zheng still has to be been sentenced for Monday’s convictions.

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