A police officer used excessive force when he put an intoxicated woman in a headlock and pulled her to the ground in Invercargill last year, the Independent Police Conduct Authority has found.
Independent Police Conduct Authority chairperson, Judge Colin Doherty, says an officer used excessive force against an intoxicated woman in Invercargill.
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The authority said the officer was retaliating in anger against the woman, who had been drinking in a liquor ban area.
Four officers approached the woman and her three friends at about 11pm on 25 July 2020, when they were drinking in a forecourt. The officers told the women to pour out all their alcohol, the authority s report on the incident said.
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