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Man faces trial for disorderly conduct

Dec 30, 2008 News

Norris King, 34, of Amelia’s Ward, Linden, yesterday appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson to face charges of disorderly conduct and assaulting a police officer.
It is alleged that on Tuesday December 23, at Hadfield Street, Georgetown, King behaved disorderly and resisted Lance Corporal Leon Lindo. He pleaded not guilty.
When asked by Magistrate Robertson to explain his actions, King said that on the day in question he was at the Linden Bus Park, speaking with two passengers who were heading to the Splashmin’s Park, when two police officers approached him and handled him roughly, claiming that he was ‘touting’.
‘I told them I was not a tout but a driver, and that they shouldn’t speak to people like that,’ King said.
The officers wanted to arrest him and attempted to do so, he said. He added that he was prepared to go wherever they wanted him to go and gave the bus keys to another driver.
He claimed that “they handcuffed him and took him to the Brickdam Police Station where Officer Lindo claimed to officers at the station” that he assaulted him.’
King said that he “never like the thought of cursing but because of the way the officer was speaking and behaving I just had to speak my mind. I ‘buse he in layman terms and that is the truth,” King told the court.
Magistrate Robertson placed the defendant on $15,000 bail. He is expected to reappear in court on February 5, 2009.

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