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by Greg Middleton

We all hear about cases
where passersby saw but
ignored the plight of
someone who was being
beaten up or,robbed, but
do you wonder’ ‘what you
would do if it was up to
you. .

Queyras and her son,
Guy, saw what they felt
was a case of brutality

True, they couldn't do the
wisest thing right off the
bat, call the police,
because the incident
involved two police: of-
ficers and the man the
officers were trying to
arrest, They did,
however, with the help of
a Daily Herald staff
member, report the in-
cident to senior RCMP
officers here.

What they said they
was saw two policemen
putting a larger, native

Terrace ' resident’ Ella. .

and stood up to the test.

A CASE OF BR U TALI ry?

was not resisting. They
saw a taxicab standing
nearby and the woman
cam driver standing
there. Mrs. Queyras, who
has some experience ‘in
the cab business, ac-
curalely summed up the
situation. as a_ typical
. dispute where a patron
can't or won't pay a bill
and the police are called.

What upset the womarr
and her son was the fact
that the  pollceman
repeatedly slammed: the
docr on the man's leg as
he tried to get out of the
police car.

Mrs. Queyras told botht
he Herald and two senior
RCMP officers here, Sgt.

* Roy Leblond and Staff
- Sgt. Dick Latta, that the

policemen put the man
into the car but he stuck
his leg out. He had been
gesturing as though he

wanted to go elsewhere
- but wasn't putting up a
struggle, she said. Mrs.

for her to not just drive
by. Shestated she saw the
policeman slam the door
on the man’s leg again,
and she yelled over to
him, “Hey, what are you
doing? Do you want to
break the man’s leg."

According to Mrs.
Queyras, and all this is
“verified by her son, the

jaca told her to ©

driying as she was
btodking traffic, Then she
says, the policeman
slammed the door on the
man’s leg a third time. .
The RCMP do not
dispute that the incident -
happened. The two senior
RCMF officers . were’
willing to talk with the
Queyras’ in the presence
of a Herald staffer, They
sald they had checked the
man who had indeed been
arrested after he refused
to pay 4 cab fare, They
conceded that he had a
one-inch-square. piece of
etn missing from one

Latta stated ‘the man’s

. leg wasn't broken and

that there were no cuts or

- formation

bruising. “Leblond read.

out the man’s arrest
record which included
charges of impaired
driving and criminal
negligence causing death.
Tt also contained in-
about
suspected breaking and
entering but nat
assaulting a polic officer,
something Leblond said
he though it would have
shown. He said the man
was currently passed out
in cells. Both said they
had talked to the mem-
bers who arrested the
fellow.

Latta said he asked the
two arresting officers
about the incident and
their version was thay as
they had tried to close the

- door of the car,-the man:

put his foot out. Mrs.
Queyras countered that
with a firm statement
saylng she saw the officer

slam the door and that he .

was smiling at the time.

Both Latta and Leblond
said they doubted the

“man would have been

smiling.

She just didn’t think it right.

“Policeman don't enjoy
picking up drunken In-
dians,” Latta said,

He went on to explain to :

the Queyraa’ that there is
always an element of risk

involved in arresiing

someone and that the
policemen have a right to
use reasonable force and
protect themselves. Mrs.
Queyras agreed with that
but commented that she
didn’tsee slamming a car
door on a man’s'leg as
protecting anyone.

The outcome of the

incident is that no -

charges are going to be
laid = =—s_ against the
policemen. Even Mrs.
Queyras said she didn't
really want that, Latta
said he would speak again
to the members invalved.
That satisfied her. She
later said to the Herald
that she never really
thought that anything
would be resolved, she
just didn’t think what she
had seen was right and
she didn’t want to just
pass it by, even though it
Probably happens all the

.time.

; Franz -Colet,

man into a police car.  Queyras stated the
They noted that although policeman slammed the
he was bigger than cither". door on the man’s leg
of the two policemen, he once and that was enough

“He wants us

hy Greg Middieton

the in-
dependent candidate run-
ning in the federal election in
the Skeena riding is not the
kind of man {o follow any
party line, there is little
doubt about that.

The 50-ycar-old one-time
electronics techniclan has an
alr of concern, although it la
obviously not for his
somewhat seedy ap
pearance. He also has the

aroma of exotic smoking.

material about him, and it
isn’t Turkish cigars.

Colet, said at times
unintelligeable by his home
town newspaper, the Prince
Rupert Daily News, speaks
with a heavy accent in not
terribly articulate English.
His message is clear,
however. He doesn’t think
the established parties and
politicians are doing enough

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for the constituents here,
Colet’s platform, apart
from seeking to redress
some things he sees as
wrongs ‘against him, is that
he wants Skeéna to secsed.
That's right, he wants us, not
Quebec, to drop out ‘of

’ ednfederation.

'-Cotet sees this drastic
measure as quite reasonable
since.the government won't
go along with his suggestion
for curing unemployment in
the country, allowing
marijuana plantations.

Stroking his long and now
eying beard reflectively,
looking like a hippy’s parody
of Pierre Trudeau with the
dandelion in his tweed jacket
pocket, Colet says that
dropping away from Canada
would have great benefits.
“We would at least be able
to fish in Alaskan waters,”

he said as he sat in the Daily-

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He recommends we set up
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Kong, He would also like to
see the RCMP here in-
vestigated and claims thal
while they were burning
berns in Quebec, they may
also have been torching
duplexes here.

Colet has no use for any of
the lodal politicians
currently in office but also
dismisses the federal Con:

‘ servatives’ by saying that

their Bill’ of Rights isn’t
worth the paper it is printed
it hasn't been
proclaimed after being put
together in the 1960's, then
what more can you expect
from them.

“The intelligensia of
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would give the people what
they wanted," is Colet’s

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