A Calgary police officer who slammed a handcuffed woman to the ground face first will not be serving jail time.
A Calgary police officer who slammed a handcuffed woman to the ground face first will not be serving jail time.
Const. Alex Dunn, 37, was found guilty in 2020 of assault causing bodily harm.
Dunn had taken Dalia Kafi to police headquarters in 2017 for allegedly breaking a curfew. A security camera showed him throwing the woman down, her hands handcuffed behind her back, with blood pooling on the ground where her face hit the floor.
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Kafi was Black and the officer white. A Crown prosecutor said there was no suggestion the assault was racially motivated, but urged the trial judge not to ignore race in sentencing.
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Note from @politicsofcanada : The prosecutor suggesting that it wasn't racially motivated is an insult to every person of colour (especially black people) who has ever been racially profiled or mistreated by cops. And no jail time? That's bullshit.
Her name was Dalia Kafi. She has since died of an overdose.
#sayhername
