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Police abusing a detainee on video

A short video has been circulating showing a police officer abusing a detainee at what looks to be a police station. The police officer is forcing the detainee to perform pushups before hitting him on his back and then kicking his stomach.

This isn’t the first time a video has popped up showing a cop abusing a detainee but it does come soon after the recent video of the cop insulting an expat woman on camera so the cop behind this might be made an example of. [YouTube]

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41 replies on “Police abusing a detainee on video”

That’s what I have a problem with regarding Kuwaiti police. Being a police officer gives you a lot of power over normal citizens so that you can do your job, but in return it also places strict restrictions/protocols so that your relationship with citizens doesn’t turn into that of a tyrant.

Many officers here tend to acknowledge the additional privlages whilst throwing everything else out the window when it doesnt sute them. They have no qualms playing judge and executioner. They decide what’s right and what’s wrong, and will act upon their convictions.

Of course, there are also honest, hard-working officers who understand the boundaries placed upon them, and make a decent effort not to cross them. Some of them might have personality issues, but they won’t “bend” the law, or abuse it when they feel like it.

Good apples and rotten apples.

From my perspective, there is not enough proactive oversight for police in Kuwait, and penalties are too weak. If a police officer abuses his power, whether kicking a detained and disabled person in the face, or abusing a detainee, he should be discharged and criminal charges should be brought upon him.

Punishment should also be sever and VERY public to make an example out of him and deter future offenders.

… Public flogging anyon

That’s so tame by Kuwaiti police standards. That guy is probably the nicest cop on the force. Seriously they do much much worse stuff to detainees.

I remember that time in the UAE when police officers repeatedly ran over some guys, electrocuted them and tortured them using protruding nails, whips and wooden planks. The police officers got away with it scotch free. Some parts of those torture sessions are still in YouTube

Thats a very different incident. It involved a royal who was ‘supposedly’ cheated out of money. He took his revenge on the guy. Yes, its also abuse of power. Also Kuwaiti cops are not particularly bad. Cops are horrible everywhere in the world, from Finland to Somalia. However, strict oversight helps to minimize the abuse of power by bad cops. In Kuwait, there is minimal oversight. For example, Kuwaiti cops rape asian women far too regularly.

I love how anytime something wrong is pointed out about Kuwait people finger point other places. It’s like saying sure I beat that homeless man and shot him but that guy tortured and burnt one alive. It doesn’t make it any better. It still means people need to push their Government reps to work Hardee and vote for people that best represent them.

the problem is the citizens dont respect the police/law and talk to them very rudely and treat them like nothing. in return they come to us and treat us like $h1t.

I have always spoken to police with respect and obeyed to what ever they say. even at first if police is rude or angry i talk to them nicely with a smile during checking and immediately they change their tone. you have to remember they are tired and irritated with people its not easy to control people. same like a teacher, she has to shout and bang the ruler on desk and scare the children to teach them. also they are the keepers of the law and they can bend law,which you cant so dont f*@k with them simple.

talk nicely and if you are given a ticket or fine accept it and keep quit dont try to act smart and try to teach him law. last time they stopped me and fined me for any reason i did not say anything he made me stand on the road for 5 min and i quietly stood there with a smile. he gave me a 5kd ticket and let me go. they other arab guy was talking too much trying to justify himself, he was thrown in the back of the police car and taken away. it all comes down to “YOU”

If having a bad day turns a cop abusive, he needs a new line of work. Their job is to uphold the law, not use citizens as their punching bags.
Someone like that guy in the video is not “tired and irritated”, he’s simply a bully who knows he can get away with it. You’re kidding yourself if you don’t think cops constantly abuse their power.

And koot, you are ALSO kidding yourself if you think police are “mistreated by all sectors of society.” Just because some rich brats are protected by their connections doesn’t mean we all are.

I’m still stunned at the ridiculousness of this logic. You know who actually IS mistreated? Fast food workers, road workers, etc. Would you be all for it if they started clubbing people over the head anytime they got mad?

at might work with some – but DEFINITELy not all … and if we are talking about citizens – its a completely different ballgame with low income expats. I’ve seen young kuwaiti police officers pushing and shoving elder indian ladies old enough to be their mothers. That’s not a matter of them being misunderstood – just assholes!

There was a video few months ago where a cop kicked a girl between her legs while walking on the street. no one made any fuss about it. i wonder why.

thats normal in kuwait, it happened to me also when I was young they like stopped a party and took lots of people to police station and just kept beating people up for fun and they hit me also but not as much as the other people, they grabbed some put them in hte hitting room and some in the weapon room ( armory ) beating them up brutally because they were ” Drunk ” the reason they did not hit me as much as they did to other people because I didn’t ” Drink Booz ” but the other guys came in not bleeding and with out hurtful body marks from savage beating, came out of the police station all beaten up and some spit on them, but this happened like 5 years ago I think.

FYI if you talk or hit them back you would be in more trouble xD

1 or 2 got charged drunk no one got deported, but they did make me choose for myself to either sign a paper that I was drunk and partying or sign a paper that I wont go out with out my civil ID again ( I had my civil ID at that time tho ) so I choose the civil ID thing.

While again not supporting police brutality. The drunk guys didn’t get deported, while people have been deported for a lot less. So while the punishment didn’t fit the crime a conviction for being drunk would have cost them their jobs for certain.

I was at the Jabriya CID unit after someone stole my purse, as I was sitting there I heard guys screaming then I saw one of the cops carrying a big huge cane pole heading toward the screams it was shocking to me as I was new to Kuwait at that time, now it’s just something that happens.

In UAE many people ‘mysteriously’ die while in police custody because they were tortured to death by the police. In Kuwait, instances of people tortured to death by police are rare

Out of all the Gulf states, Kuwait has the lowest number of people dying in police custody

really? because i have a friend who works WITH prisoners via a charity organisation – and ppl HAVe gone missing. how would that even make it to the news – or be included in some sort of official figure? theres a big desert out there where ppl get driven to not so infrequently – bodies turn up that go unaccounted for for years.

Kuwait is just good at hiding its shit – or has been for years – just 5 years ago Kuwaitis were denying this happens – at least now its more in the public eye so there can be less denial about it ….

well most Kuwaitis anyways

In the UAE, hundreds of people have gone missing over the years and the UAE police have been caught torturing detainees using electric shocks, protruding nails and hammers, planks, and acid

Kuwait has the world’s highest Twitter usage and online penetration per capita, you honestly want us to believe Kuwait police can get away with sadistically torturing detainees and no one filmed it?

Everyone in Kuwait has a phone, this country has the highest number of Instagram users per capita…

i dont care what you believe. there are plenty of ppl who are more than happy just parroting patriotic bullshiit because it sounds nice. Id rather not waste time arguing it and get my facts from ppl that know stuff because they are involved.

What the problem is?! police worldwide exist to protect and serve the law, not the citizen. looks like he’s doing his job and working hard for that lettuce.

It’s sad to see people getting all defensive and saying it’s worse in other parts of the world. Police is there to serve people ‘Period’. They should be respected and relied on for our safety not Feared. But as you all probably know ( Well, I Hope You Do ) a rank automatically doesn’t gets you respect, you have to earn it and such abusive act’s aren’t helping much.

Comparisons to other countries or situations is no excuse for police brutality. But the fact is it happens everywhere.

I was in an Indian police station when a guy was brought in arrested for harassing women in a park by lady cops. They tossed him on the floor in the corridor and every constable and officer who passed him gave him a kick or a slap. Then the sergeant came by and proceeded to beat him with a lathi (thick bamboo stick) for several minutes. None of them hid it, nobody flinched and nobody (most certainly not me) objected. Was it wrong? Yes. Was it justifiable? No. But I certainly wasn’t going to intervene.

General rule of thumb don’t fuck with Cops. Good or bad, right or wrong it is not going to end well for you.

Cops here are a fucking joke. Constantly texting or using their laptops while driving, parking illegally, blocking traffic across intersections, not intervening when they should, harassing women, mistreating non Kuwaitis. And I have seen all these first hand. Cops in the states don’t let any if this shit go. Sure US Cops are dicks but mostly if you are black or in the right about an issue.

i was arrested twice for not having my civil id on – back when i was young and in school – got beaten up. One of my friends was severely traumatised and dropped out of school …

this is normal for a LOT of people. the cops here are just – pure – evil and anmalistic. fuck comparisons with dubai and the us or anywhere else. these guys are just barbaric monkeys

UAE police are much worse than Kuwait’s police

UAE police have been caught torturing detainees using electric shocks, acid, protruding nails and hammers, repeatedly running over detainees by car, and wooden planks

I can’t pledge for this but the rumor is that the man being beaten in the video is a child rapist.

Was it right to beat him? Of course not.
Did he deserve it? He deserved more than that beating if he truly is what the rumors say he is.

Scratch that!

Update: Officer going to receive 15 days military imprisonment and possibly an expulsion from the force. The ‘expat’ seen in the video was taken in for not having his identification with him

Happens all over the world.. doesnt matter where in the world u may live ..Abusive Behaviour by police forces anywhere in the world are common place. In Kuwait it will only happen with Expats and never with locals. A local how ever small he may be will still have a voice, an expat dosent. unless ofcourse he is from the upper echelons of the buisness community and is well connected.

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