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They meant to beat the guy next door instead, you see. Sorry, no hard feelings? Below are just a few of the volumes of police attacks in the StatismWatch archives – narrowed specifically to include only attacks and raids in or around private residences.

Flashback: Regina police probe RCMP torture claims | Video shows violent B.C. police takedown | Business as usual: SWAT team breaks down mayor’s door, shoots dogs, ransacks home, refuses to apologize | Family furious after police raid East Vancouver home | SWAT Teams raiding Amish, Food Co-ops in Rural US | Family sues police claiming Taser raid on autistic son in own bedroom | Rapper Belly slams police raid on his home | Nephew of slain native chief slain in turn by police — tribal leaders call for inquiry | Toronto artist seeks explanation for police raid | Youth Worker Subjected to Warrantless Raid on Secret Evidence

Update (2010/01/22): The Vancouver police have retracted their (reflexive) statement that Mr. Wu attacked them first, that he “resisted by striking out at police”, thus providing a pretext for the beating. It’s a good sign, although the officers involved are presently on paid holiday. Now, what have we learned here? Those officers need to be fired – that would be ‘tough on crime’.

Update (2010/01/23): Mr. Wu is not accepting VPD’s apology, but is hesitant to file suit, believing this would bring further retaliation down on him and his family from the VPD.

CBC News
January 21, 2010

The Vancouver Police Department has issued an apology after a man said he was beaten by officers who knocked on the wrong door while investigating a report of a violent domestic dispute.

Plainclothes officers arrived at the right house at 2 a.m. PT Wednesday near Knight and 49th Street in East Vancouver, but they were at the wrong suite, police admitted in a news release Thursday.

Speaking through a translator, Yao Wei Wu told CBC News that as soon as he opened the door the officers pulled him out of the house and beat him.

He was hit multiple times on the back, head and face, said Yao, 44.

He said he did not resist because the men had guns.

It was only after they handcuffed him and asked his name that they appeared to realize they had the wrong man, Yao said.

The officers then called for an ambulance and a Cantonese-speaking police officer.

Yao was taken to hospital where he said doctors found fractured bones around his eye and multiple bruises on his back.

“A full and thorough internal investigation has been launched into the case of an eastside resident who was injured and arrested in a case of mistaken identity,” Const. Jana McGuinness said in a news release.

The officers didn’t realize there were two separate residences in the house, McGuinness said.

“The man resisted by striking out at the police and trying to slam the door, but the officers persisted in the belief that there may be a woman and child inside who could be in danger.”

The man the police were looking for who lived in the other suite in the house was later found and arrested on suspicion of assault, McGuinness said.

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