A NSW Police officer has been charged with assaulting an Aboriginal teenager during an arrest in Sydney last year.
Mobile phone footage of the incident allegedly showed the male constable kicking the teenager s legs from underneath him, and also pushing his face into the ground.
The arrest took place in Ward Park in Surry Hills on June 1 last year and has been under investigation by professional standards.
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NSW Police have charged an officer overa n incident involving an Indigenous teen who was taken to hospital after being arrested in Sydney for allegedly threatening an officer.(Supplied)
Today the officer involved, who has since been redeployed to the Southern Region, was issued with a court attendance notice for assault occasioning actual bodily harm and common assault.
Ron Brierley.
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Brierley had pleaded guilty last month to three charges of possessing child sex abuse material in the Downing Centre Local Court in Sydney, having been arrested at Sydney Airport in 2016.
The 83-year-old will no longer be allowed to use the title Sir and has been asked to return his insignia.
The corporate raider - as he s usually referred to - founded Brierley Investments, which was one of New Zealand s largest most successful and glamorous companies of the 1980s.
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His employment status is under review, according to a NSW Police statement.
Following the incident, NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller said there were other ways the officer could have dealt with the matter. The fact that this officer doesn t have a chequered history and he has been in [the police force] for three and a half years, if the complaint is sustained against him, you would have to say he has had a bad day, Mr Fuller said.
The teenager allegedly told a male police officer I ll crack you in the f ing jaw, bro before he was swept to the ground.
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Disgraced Wellington businessman Ron Brierley has given up his knighthood after pleading guilty last month to possessing child sex abuse material.
The forfeiture comes after the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern started moves to strip him of the title and honour.
Brierley had pleaded guilty in the Downing Centre Local Court in Sydney last month to three charges of possessing child sex abuse material, having been arrested at Sydney Airport.
The 83-year-old will no longer be allowed to use the title “Sir” and has been asked to return his insignia.
The “corporate raider” – as he’s usually referred to – founded Brierley Investments, which was one of New Zealand’s largest most successful and glamorous companies of the 1980s. He was one of the best known New Zealanders of the 1980s and ’90s – never far from the headlines or a new business buy-up.
01:22 EDT, 4 May 2021
The policeman who allegedly kicked a teenager to the ground at a park in Sydney s inner-east has been charged with assault.
The 16-year-old told a cop he would crack him in the f king jaw, bro , during a verbal altercation at Eddie Ward Park in Surry Hills, Sydney, on June 1, 2020.
The officer then grabbed his hands and allegedly kicked his legs from under him at the same time, sending the boy tumbling face first into the concrete footpath below.
He was issued with a court attendance notice on Tuesday after being charged with assault occasioning bodily harm and common assault.