These officers actions are nothing new. Police officers function with the full blessings of Commissioner Greenslade.

He turns a blind eye but knows that police brutality is an everyday occurance in the Bahamas.

I hope this man sue the Police force and government to fullest extent possible.

I always maintain that the police force is the biggest gang in the Bahamas. Their uniform makes their gang style activities legal, specially when they have to answer to no one. Everyone understands that there is a problem with drug trafficking through the LPI Airport just like it is common around the Bahamas in general. But if policemen are stationed there to do survaillence work and to apprehend drug suspects, how long can they remain in that post and be undercover when they get into scuffles and create rukus such as this? Our law says everyone is innocent until proven guilty, and even when a police apprehends a suspect, they have no right to beat them to a pulp. And to continue to beat a person after he was knocked unconscious, and then attempt to lock him in a cell and hide his injuries. These are not policemen. With the recent deaths of 3 persons while in police custody, you would think that police would tune down this type of behaviour, especially in a public place like the airport.

its amazing how people can judge an incident without evidence this means i can go to the tribune with a bruise on my eye too and say i was assaulted by the prime minister an d the story would run front page what happen to investigative reporting

the fact that the police at the airport police station refused to take the man into their custody, 'becuse oif the condition he was in' is reason enough to conclude that he was beaten (into a pulp). there is no eveidence to show that the victim was disorderly or resisted arrest or assulted any police officers because, apparently, none of these charges were pressed against the young man. And why did they slip him through the back door and remove him from the station when his family came to enquire about him. Also didn't his father say he heard part of the exchange( AKA beating) between the piloce and his son via cell phone So if you want to claim that you were assulted by the prime minster then you should have evidence to support your claim.

I was at the airport boarding a flight and yes he was. The officers came to him respectfully but he refuse to get arrested. He started to fight the officers. He was drunk from he got there

Well Larry, I suppose that as the incident happen in an extremely public place there must be many who witnessed what happened!!!?

this seems a strange story<img src="http://tinyurl.com/c7l9ck6" width="1">

Immigration picks up an illegal worker from Atlantis......And "business" goes ballistic because a "white person" wasn't smiled and grinned with..........And tourists were watching.

The police beat an innocent black Bahamian citizen to unconsciousness and beyond...and "business" is quite happy with that!....And tourist are watching as well!

in this day and age where every one with a smart phone can record and instantly upload recordings on the internet no one recorded this action in the Bahamas impossible.

THANK YOU

I have a friend in Freeport who use to be a reserve police, she quite said she couldn`t handle going out at night with the other policemen and picking up people to beat just for the fun of it .

either your a fat lier or your friend is stop spreading SHIT its people like you what is causing the situation we are faceing in this contury today

the police are us!! and that is what has been taught as conflict resolution since they were babies ,,do you see the way we discipline ,we shout at and threaten our children w/ violence and then when they don,t behave we beat the crap out of them in anger ,,then wash it all down with a plaititude ," spare the rod spoil the child " the undereducated discipline w/ violence and anger ,,do you expect our police to be different than us ...plus how do you expect the police to deal w/ violent people ,,with a sing along ..accept it, we are a violent people and thats how a good majority of us deal w/ conflict ,,geez the police are in the schools to keep our little darlins from killing one another ,,

is that what white people do to their kids? geeze!

i was talking about our discipline habits as Bahamians ,i did not inject any reference to colour or race Once again you seem to always turn things to white people or foriegners ,is your identity as a person soley dependent on racial issues , is the very core of you a ball of inferiority based on what another race does or doesn,t do ??

so that IS how white folks treat their kids..geeze!

please don,t interact w/ our guest that are 90% white ,,i have a feeling you would have problems being civil and would lasp into snide little comments just w/ in earshot about the wickedness of another race ,,dude your a xenophopic ,racist ,histronic cornacopia of infereority issues ,,,actually your so predictably its all most boring ,,,

In my own experience when officers had me pinned up against a wall near PMH, claiming that someone in my vehicle had fired off shots in The Cable Beach area. The officer who was 'in charge' had a machine gun as did two or three other officers and the guns were pointed at us during the entire ordeal. The officer in charge seem to grow angrier by the minute and because the ground where we were detained was an uneven surface, he stumbled and almost fell a few times (i think he may have been drinking but I have no evidence. My greatest fear was that the machine gun he had would go off accidentally and kill one or two of us or even some of his fellow policemen.

I was an eye witness at the airport when this happen. And it did not go the way the gentlemen is saying it did. From he came through the back he was been loud, seems to be drunk. I was at the gate boarding my flight when the person from teh airline was telling him to ease up. Yes they did wrestle him to ground because he refuse to get arrested. I was actullay fighting the police. They had no choose to protect thmesleves. IT took 5 officers to pin him down to put hand cuffs on him and still he was fighing. He did not pass out because he was still trying to fight them off before they took him in the bathroom. His friend who they already had arrested was telling him to just lets go but he refuse to go in peace. He wanted to pull a scene.

lol lol lmao its a good thing you were there to see the truth for your self ya know some officers do get out a hand but there are still the majority who still up hold the law we bahamian feed on gossep even more so if it false just read some a the comments

I was actullay fighting the police.[I was an eye witness at the airport when this happen. And it did not go the way the gentlemen is saying it did.]. false witness in your own words.

THe officers had every reason to arrest him.

our son is not complaining about the officers arresting him the problem we have is that if you want to arrest me why take me in the bathroom to beat me half to death take my funds, damage my phone after realizing that his father (the caller) heard what was going on if i am to be arrested take me to the station then put me behind bars. If you attempted to murder me steal my money and damage my property tell me which one of us truly can be called a criminal. thanks for letting me know that being loud and boisterous is now a crime in the Bahamas and it is okay to do what i want to a person because i have rank and position in my Country. and for your info some officers still even today continue to abuse others as soon as the same happens to one of your own let us know how it feels the rate they are on right now it wont be long before you understand what our complaint is about