Fairhall man claims he was mistreated by police

Fair Hall resident Mikel Bradshaw is outraged at the way he was recently treated by a police officer.

Bradshaw visited SEARCHLIGHT last Thursday and gave details of an encounter he alleges he had with a high-ranking member of the Rapid Response Unit (RRU), commonly known as the ‘Black Squad’.{{more}}

The young man stated that he had gone to Paul’s Avenue to visit a cousin and was in the vicinity of ‘Mutt’s Shop,’ when a jeep, with members of the RRU inside, pulled up near to him.

“This jeep just pulled up and this guy just jump off the jeep and just choke me off, telling me I must do him something, he will shoot me inside my belly with his gun,” he continued.

Bradshaw said that he is angry, because he has never been in trouble with the law and the police officer was not aware what was his business in Paul’s Avenue.

“I keep asking him why he doing me that…. He telling me I must do him something let he spread me off and shoot me inside my belly in front everybody, so they could laugh after me,” the young man recounted.

Bradshaw said after that incident, another police officer approached him and told him not to “study that.”

“So, I ask him why shouldn’t I study him and he just choke me off like that,” he said.

While Bradshaw did not sustain any major injuries, the young man showed SEARCHLIGHT scrapes about his neck, which he said were as a result of the alleged incident. He said no report had been made with the Police Public Relations Department.(CM)