The lawyer for a Canadian police officer convicted of assault for the violent 2017 arrest of a handcuffed Black woman has asked that his client serve time on house arrest rather than in jail. The attorney claims the constable is guilty of “becoming frustrated” with the woman, who was knocked unconscious as her head hit the floor when the officer threw her down in a processing unit in 2017.
Calgary police officer Const. Alex Dunn, 34, was convicted of assault causing bodily harm for his violent arrest and takedown of Dalia Kafi, who was 26 when the incident occurred on Dec. 12, 2017.
Surveillance footage of the arrest released by a judge in October shows Dunn and Kafi in a processing unit where Kafi was about to have her picture taken while standing against a wall. Dunn attempted to remove her headscarf multiple times before slamming Kafi to the ground in what Staff Sgt. Gordon Macdonald described as a “judo-style throw,” during testimony he gave during last year’s tri
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Nearly three years to the day after Dalia Kafi was injured by Calgary police Const. Alex Dunn, the officer has been found guilty of assault causing bodily harm for the violent takedown of the handcuffed woman after a judge rejected his evidence, finding it was "evasive and self-serving."
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