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April 16, 2020 15: 42:21
An innocent guy whose arm was severely broken by police during a botched raid is “shattered” that Victoria’s anti-corruption guard dog cleared officers of using excessive force during the arrest, his legal representative says.
Bottom line:
- The watchdog discovered authorities had “reasonable grounds” to get in the building and make the arrest
- However it discovered authorities breached Nik Dimopoulos’s human rights by failing to inform him why he was being apprehended
- Mr Dimopoulos’s legal representative has stated “Victorians ought to be actually worried” by IBAC’s ruling
The Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission (IBAC) today concluded that the force utilized by police to restrain Nik Dimopoulos during the raid at an apartment adjacent Fitzroy’s Hares & Hyenas bookshop was “not disproportionate to the officers’ objective of arresting Mr Dimopoulos”.
” IBAC found the force used by