Drunk driver's rampage ended in brutal police beating

[SunnybankScan]

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25 ... 42,00.html
It has a video of the whole incident aswell, complete with sound.

POLICE officers who dragged a drunken driver from his car and bashed him with their fists, boots and batons are being investigated by the NSW Police Professional Standards Command and the NSW Ombudsman.

The investigation will determine whether unjust force was used during the arrest of Mount Druitt man Sione Peaua, 43, who was beaten by as many as five police officers following a 45-minute car chase on May 25 last year.

Video footage from a police patrol vehicle and the Polair police helicopter was tendered in court on Friday during Peaua's trial for serious traffic offences.

[BradT87]

Nice to see that PolAir do their collegues a favor and pan the camera away half way through the 'incident'. Convenient that an officer or two block the dash cam as well... I think the officers will be fine, the dude was fairly uncoperative (it sounded) and drunk.

The news story is quite misleading, I couldn't pick out any batons... Or "up to five officers"... there was really only one doing the kicking.

[AIRMAN]

Another MEDIA BEAT UP