Drug war insanity north of the border too

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from the Toronto Star:





A jewelry broker and one-time marijuana dealer says he felt compelled to sign a document agreeing not to sue two police officers who brutally beat him so he could plead seal a court plea deal.

Christopher Quigley testified at a cop corruption trial Tuesday that Toronto central drug squad officers beat him so severely after they arrested him and took them to their Eglinton Ave. W. headquarters on April 30, 1998, that he thought he was going to be killed.

Quigley said he was kicked, punched and choked by officers Ned Maodus and Richard Benoit with the encouragement and participation of their boss, Det.-Sgt. John Schertzer.

They kept angrily demanding he tell them where he kept his drugs and money, he testified. ................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1116868--prisoner-thought-he-was-going-to-die-during-police-beating-trial-told?bn=1