CCTV: Canada

Calgary’s police chief is ordering an internal probe after surveillance footage given to media appears to show an officer pushing a man down a flight of stairs in a downtown apartment building.

The footage shows three officers standing in a hallway of a tenement building over several people sitting on the floor.

Suddenly, an officer pulls a man toward some stairs and appears to put his knee into the man’s back, causing him to tumble. Two officers then walk down the stairs after him.

The video, which has no sound, was recorded on Feb. 16 in a building at 115-7th Ave. S.W.

Aftab Hussain, who runs a convenience store one floor below the spot where the incident took place, gave the footage to the newspaper.

Police Chief Rick Hanson said Wednesday that the force had already received a complaint about the situation, so the video footage will be part of the internal investigation by the professional standards section.

“I viewed the videotape and in looking at it, it was clear that there’s a number of unanswered questions and I’ve learned over many years of policing that you need both sides of the story,” Hanson said.

BOTH SIDES OF THE STORY???? WTF? He just picked some guy up who was sitting perfectly still on the ground and threw him down the stairs. What more do you need to know? Watch the video and judge for yourself.