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Const. Inderpal Singh Bal disciplined by RCMP, received suspended sentence by Martin van den Hemel Staff Reporter A Richmond Mountie punched a suspect in the face, then facewashed him on the asphalt, during an arrest he made in January of 2012 following a string of cell phone robberies. Details about the assault that landed Const. Inderpal Singh Bal in hot water, are included in a decision by Richmond provincial court Judge Ron Fratkin. Bal pled guilty to common assault, and was sentenced in January. According to the court ruling—Bal received a suspended sentence, six months probation, and was ordered to work 25 hours of community service— Bal was part of quick response RCMP team on the night of the incident on Jan. 26, 2012. The team was conducting undercover surveillance in regard to a series of cell phone robberies and thefts that occurred in downtown Richmond between Dec. 31, 2011 and Jan. 26, 2012. Two men were believed to have been strong-arming cell phones from victims, and in some report, weapons were involved. While surveilling Matthew Navas-Rivas and Peter Grieve, the team lost visual contact with them for a short time, and during that window, the team received a police broadcast of a just-completed robbery involving a cell phone and a wallet.
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The two suspects were reported fleeing in a car at high speed. The surveillance team initiated a Code Five (high risk) arrest, and the team pulled over a car driven by Navas-Rivas. Although the men in the car were ordered to stay inside, they both disobeyed and exited the vehicle with their arms raised. But both complied when told to lie down on the ground, where Navas-Rivas remained motionless for about 14 seconds. That’s when video footage, taken from an RCMP cruiser equipped with a dashboard camera, shows Bal with his service gun drawn but pointed downward, approach the suspect, move rather quickly and land a “quite aggressive” knee to the victim’s lower back. Bal then placed his weapon on the ground near Navas-Rivas, and “looks up and to his right for a brief moment and then with his right hand strikes Navas-Rivas in the head/face.” According to the court ruling, Navas-Rivas “had not struggled or shown any resistance throughout the arrest.” See Page 4
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According to the court ruling, Matthew Navas-Rivas “had not struggled or shown any resistance throughout the arrest.”
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