Really weird story. Nothing about it adds up, but the diplomatic wording is impressive.
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She was “handcuffed and savagely beaten, to the point that she had difficulty breathing, which led to her being taken to the hospital by ambulance,” the ministry said in a release dated Thursday but only made public on Friday.
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What the police said :
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They alleged that when officers attempted to explain the process, the woman struck a female police officer in the face.
The officers then decided to arrest the woman “for the safety of everyone present,” according to the release. Police alleged the woman resisted arrest, bit another officer and was then tackled to the ground, where she was restrained.
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Police say they were called back to the same location, around an hour and a half after they first arrived, by paramedics who were treating the woman, but did not offer further details, only saying that around 10 people were present.
The Senegalese government said the charge d'affairs at the Canadian Embassy in Dakar, the Senegalese capital, was summoned to the Foreign Affairs Ministry so officials could “vigorously denounce and strongly condemn this racist and barbaric act.”
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It will be interesting to see what comes of the police footage and the account of what happened in that one and a half hours. It sounds like the bailiff was just trying to obtain a statement. Anyway. You are not allowed to detain a diplomat, so now we all wade into the intricacies of whether putting her into the cruiser was detainment.
https://www.cp24.com/news/senegalese...lice-1.6017059