Kelowna, BC – A Kelowna RCMP officer, caught on surveillance camera dragging a handcuffed woman down a hallway and stepping on her head in January 2020, has been charged with one count of assault.
The charge against Cpl. Lacy Browning was announced on Monday by the B.C. Prosecution Service after an internal investigation by the RCMP which was subsequently reviewed by Abbotsford police.
The video became public as part of a civil lawsuit filed by Mona Wang, who was a nursing student at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus in Kelowna at the time of the assault.
The lawsuit stated Wang’s boyfriend called the RCMP to request a ‘welfare check’ and alleges that Browning’s conduct “abusive” after the officer found the student lying in a state of semi-consciousness in her apartment.
The defendants claimed the officer used no more force than was reasonable and necessary.
A statement of defence also alleges the student began yelling and swinging her arms at the officer, who proceeded to strike Wang with an open palm in order to subdue and arrest her under the Mental Health Act.
In June, the RCMP announced the lawsuit had been settled.
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