Canadian police 'mercilessly' subdue Korean couple
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Royal Canadian Mounted Police try to take an old Korean couple outside a hotel in Coquitlam by force, frisking the woman and dragging the man by arm and leg. / Courtesy of YTN
By Ko Dong-hwan
A video of Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) “mercilessly” dragging an old Korean couple from a hotel in the city of Coquitlam amid screams heated up the internet on Tuesday.
In the video, filmed on Oct. 27 on the hotel’s stairs, three RCMP officers try to take the couple, in their 80s, outside, according to
While two officers frisk the woman, another grabs the old man by the legs. The man lies flat and stretches his legs, making it difficult for the officer to move him. But the officer eventually manages to drag him away.
The couple’s granddaughter, who screamed throughout the video, tries to stop the officers who are holding the woman, screaming “Don’t do that.” The officer replies “Don’t touch me.”
The woman, while being led out, sits down to prevent the officers moving her.
Several people watch the scene and an Asian man approaches one of the officers in what appears to be an effort to persuade him to release the woman. An off-screen voice shouts at the officers, “Leave her alone. Look at the kid.”
Canada’s CBC News said the police were called to the scene after the pair refused to leave a strata council meeting held at the hotel, in which a fight erupted over a voting dispute.
The couple later went to hospital for treatment for shock.
An outside police force has been called in to investigate how the police handled the incident.