Police cleared after striking teen and leaving cheek ‘torn apart’ during arrest

An Aboriginal teenager who had his cheek “torn apart” and needed surgery after being arrested should not have been tackled or struck by police, but the five officers involved did not commit misconduct, according to the independent police watchdog.

Its report said it was “regrettable” that none of the officers were wearing bodycams, and that if they had then an investigation may not have been necessary. The LECC found that the teenager had run from the car before being tackled by a police officer into a shipping container with several exposed metal hinges and poles, saying this was the most likely cause of his facial injuries.

“A young slightly built adolescent had at one point four police officers wrestling with him with at least one of them striking him three times. To KROI this may well have felt like he was being punched and attacked by several police officers, possibly with police radios,” the report said. “KROI was effectively surrounded by police officers, with more continuing to arrive on the scene, and had no means of escape,” the report said.

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