Victoria police officers have used their police vehicles to intentionally hit people on bikes, scooters or on foot, including striking people with the car door or cutting people off to force a collision, at least 12 times in the last decade, according to documents obtained through freedom of information and reports on substantiated allegations against the department.
A series of similar incidents are revealed in documents obtained from VicPD through freedom of information requests by Stephen Harrison, a Victoria resident who writes about police accountability at needsmorespikes.com. “The vehicle steered diagonally into the male but was not driving quickly at him. The bricks began to fall down all around the male,” it says.
The discipline authority said the use of a police vehicle as a method of force “carries risk and potential serious harm to individuals, and should only be reserved for instances to prevent death or serious bodily harm.”Some incidents involve police attempting to detain people who have warrants for their arrest or responding to a report of someone with a knife.
“If VicPD saw a driver run a red at 30k, would they hit that driver after less than a block and run their car off the road? Or would they turn in front of them and make them crash? Probably not,” Harrison said. “So why are they then hitting cyclists and pedestrians?”
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