People attend a demonstration in support of nursing student Mona Wang, who alleges excessive force was used by an RCMP officer during a wellness check in Kelowna, in Vancouver, on Saturday, July 11, 2020.Shayla Raine ended her kickboxing class on January 20 to a flood of text messages asking what was going on in her apartment.
The incident spurred a number of protests in support of Wang — and against the use of force by police — in British Columbia on Saturday. Surveillance video from Wang’s apartment building appears to show a female officer dragging the student face first down a carpeted hallway and into an elevator. The officer then apperars to briefly step on Wang’s head while waiting for additional first responders in the lobby.“The violence done to her, bruises all over body, bleeding eyes…she had to stay in hospital for three days,” she told the crowd. “I felt deeply saddened, shocked and outraged.
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