An armed police officer has been captured on video wrestling with, and ruthlessly assaulting a woman in a bank despite the mother holding a little child in her arm.
The circumstances surrounding the assault are not immediately known but the muscled officer is seen ferociously hitting the helpless woman with an umbrella and then repeatedly punching and slapping her in the face as though he were in a boxing duel with a worthy opponent.
Despite the punches and slaps, the poor woman held on tightly to her child until a man in the bank wrenched the baby out of her grip so the child could be taken out of harm’s way.
The officer did not give the slightest thought to the risk of his gun, slaps and blows hitting the little child in the melee but kept punching the woman with careless abandon.
But for the exit of the mother through the bank door, the officer had readied the butt of his gun to hit her face.
Though details about the incident are sketchy, it appeared it had to do with some GHS250, since a voice in the video kept saying he would pay the amount.
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Source: Video Credit: Facebook/ Michael Yirenkyi
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I presume from the voices that 1. It was after banking ours 2. The woman needed to redraw 3. The branch did not have enough cash 4. They refused to explain to the police 4. Therefore wanted to take advantage of ' bank has closed' to let the woman come the next day..when there might be enough cash 5. The woman wanted to create a scene to get her cash 6. The police was right to intervene but the process was wrong on his part
I partly blame this woman although that doesn't justify what the officer did. From my point of view, she kept holding on to the officer's uniform whilst others try to separate them and I called that an attack on the officer. She should have let go of the officer and remain calm.
Our children are watching. My five year old daughter asked me why the police man is killing the woman. 😭. Please what should I tell her???🙆♂️😭😭😭🙆♂️
This is the most shameful behaviour and the most saddest day in Ghanaian community. I can put my neck on the rock to be chopped that the police man is an NDC sympathiser and was recruited during NDC era. This should send a message to the IGP and the police recruitment agency to properly check the background of every policeman they recruit. We are sick and tired of weed smoking and alcohol addicted police officer in our country Ghana. The ***barred word*** so-called protocol where any riffraff is recruited into a police force. I will definitely take IGP on if this bastard policeman is not sacked to serve as a deterrent to others who drink alcohol and smoke weed before going to work. All policemen going out on duty should be breathalysed before and after duty. This ***barred word*** should stop. it is sickening.
THE BANK STAFF AT THE SCENE COULD NOT INTERVENE??? SHAME UNTO THEM ALSO!!
Ahhh what a pity to see. I couldn't watch it twice. My eyes are filled with tears. A so-called police officer beaten a breastfeeding woman holding a vulnerable kid less than 3 months??? I mostly gives thanks to God that the child didn't even fall on ground. We will surely be following the outcome of the investigation...I've already spoken and sent this pathetic video to Aftenpost here in Norway, BBC, CNN etc. to show it to the world to see what is going in a country called Ghana...
I'm sending this to CNN and BBC if they've not already seen it. What a ***barred word*** man. He is very lucky, If it were to be me, one of us would have died that day.
This is more than SHAME TO POLICE. The police officers we have today at least 70 percent were enlisted back door. The enlistment formality does not exist. Most of the present Police officers are absent from the laid down police Squad Book studies and relationship between the police and the public. Their objectives are extorting, collaboration with criminals and so called MONKEY DUTIES. I think the IGP will be SHAMEED of himself for seeing a young lady with her baby being beaten by a Police man with AK 47 in his hand. IGP consider this poor lady as your own daughter, what would have been your reaction
THE POLICE MAN IS A VERY LUCKY MAN TRUST ME IF THIS LADY WAS MY WIFE OR SISTER SERIOUSLY HE WILL FEEL TRUST ME I WONT REPORT THE CASE BUT WILL FACE HIM MAN TO MAN
It is not enough to punish the police officer!!! The police should remember they are paid with taxpayers’ money The woman should be compensated for her emotional and physical injuries. If I was a customer I will close my account. It is not safe to do business with this company. Are they hiring the police to brutalize customers? Where was the manager of the branch during the incident? Do they really care?