To Disturb and Abuse
by C. L. Cook
 Another unsettling report of law enforcement run amok in Canada surfaced from the nation's capital, Ottawa. Local cab driver, Sami Aldoboni is recuperating with a broken wrist and fingers today following an unprovoked attack, an incident of road rage witnessed by an entire airport taxi stand, by an off-duty Ottawa police officer.
No charges yet in Cabbie assault
Witnesses claim the assailant also uttered racial slurs, but no arrest was made once police responders discovered the perp was one of their own.
Speaking for the Ottawa police department, Const. Alain "Steve" Boucher defended the unnamed officer, saying he knew him to be; "[O]f good moral character."
The Canadian Broadcast Corporation news flagship, 'The National' picked up the story, stealing some of the thunder from the Ottawa Citizen's Brendan Kennedy, whose report paints a troubling portrait of easy impunity for the most obvious transgressions against the law, made more odious by its author's vile braggadocio.
In isolation, this incident is a sad commentary on the quality of Ottawa's police standards; but police abuse is a more frequently reported happening in Canada, each pointing to disturbing precedents of policed states falling into a Police State.
Aldoboni's case reminds of similar one recently in Vancouver, linked below. He describes his experience;
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