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Cop found guilty of unlawful assault on fare evader who was body-slammed and choked
Dean Anderson walks from the Magistrates’ Court after facing assault charges. Picture: Jake Nowakowski
FOOTAGE has emerged of a cop body-slamming and choking a fare evader who would not tell him his name at Flinders Street Station.
Sen-Constable Dean Anderson was mentoring three junior protective service officers when he lost his temper in the assault caught on CCTV.
Anderson arrested passenger Anton Perry on December 13, 2012 and took him to a holding cell at the station, where he shoved him into the wall and threw him to the ground.
He then straddled him, placing his knee on his chest, and grabbed Mr Perry’s throat.
Mr Perry’s head was shoved into the wall as the officer became increasingly agitated at his insistence that he had a title, not a name.
Magistrate Elizabeth Lambden found he acted out of frustration, rather than self-defence for fear of being spat on, when he repeatedly assaulted a man who would not tell him his proper name.
Source: http://philosophers-stone.co.uk/wordpress/2014/10/cop-found-guilty-of-unlawful-assault-on-fare-evader-who-was-body-slammed-and-choked/
