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The court has found police officer often known as “Agent 728”, Stefanie Trudeau, guilty of assault in a recently announced verdict. The officer was charged in March 2014 after being caught on video while making a violent arrest in October 2012 as the officer allegedly insulted the people she was trying to arrest.
At the time of incident, Trudeau attempted to ticket a man named Rudy Occhietti for having a beer in hand as he opened the door of his Papineau Ave. apartment to a group of friends. When Occhietti protested, Trudeau quickly tried to place him under arrest and when Occhietti’s friend, Serge Lavoie, moved to defend him, she immediately went after him too, entering his apartment illegally, and then forced him down the stairs in a chokehold. Prosecutor Jean-Simon Larouche pointed out that “even if he came to the conclusion that it was a legal arrest, the way she grabbed Mr. Lavoie, at that moment, she used excessive force.”
The trial was several delays since it started in last October and then a judge altered the process from a criminal trial to a summary case in December 2014. Trudeau can now be behind bar for a maximum sentence of six months, but the two sides are anticipated to reconvene in the spring to determine her sentence. In a separate case involving an incident during the 2012 student protests, the Crown determined that Trudeau had not used unnecessary force as defined in the Criminal Code. It was revealed that she has quit the Montreal police force.
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