News related to police violence has been cascading in recent days.
This Friday, a police commander was sentenced on the basis of a video posted on social networks to 4 months in prison.
His case had been extremely publicized in 2019. He had gassed a quadriplegic protester in a wheelchair during a rally of yellow vests.
"This case shows that video is essential in the context of a trial involving a police officer," the victim's lawyer, Me Claire Dujardin, told AFP.
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On March 2, 2019, this official who headed the Toulouse Security and Intervention Company tore off the gas mask worn by a disabled person in a wheelchair to protect himself during a rally of yellow vests.
A Toulouse student "shocked" by this "disproportionate act"
While the latter had brought his motorized chair closer to the police officer to ask him to return his mask to him, the official had gassed him at close range with a tear gas canister.
“They took off my ski mask and they didn't want to give it back to me.
So I followed the policeman.
I just wanted him to return it to me ”, told the Parisian at the time this yellow vest which had joined act 16 of the yellow vests at the very beginning of the afternoon.
Lucas B., a neighbor who witnessed the scene, confirmed having seen the policeman "take off his mask for no reason", continues this Toulouse student who says he is "shocked" by this "disproportionate act".
VIDEO. A disabled yellow vest sprayed with tear gas
"The video was taken by a citizen on his balcony and it is thanks to its distribution on social networks that the public prosecutor of Toulouse seized the IGPN", added Me Dujardin.
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Referring to the scandal of the beating by police officers on Saturday of a black music producer in a Parisian music studio, the lawyer stressed that "broadcasting is as important as filming" in such cases.
