It appears that the hijinx from the Boys in Blue are not confined to the Lower Mainland after all. Victoria Police have some explaining to do after Willow Kinloch broke a three year silence about being taken from her home, handcuffed, hog-tied and tethered to the door of a padded cell. The BC Civil Liberties Association says that Kinloch's treatment by officers in BC's capital city amounts to torture.
This page is calling a TKO fro the BCCLA - Victoria Police were questioning Kinloch (15 years old at the time) while she was forcibly restrained and traumatized. My skimming of the Geneva Convention says that trying to get information from people while subjecting them to physical hardship is torture. I appreciate that the nylon strap restraining device is used as an alternative to a taser (some breaking news for the Richmond RCMP), but if Kinloch had been allowed to come down from her episode before they started pumping her for information, I don't think the Victoria Cops would necessarily be seeing her in court this fall.
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