Manitoba police officer lit woman's hair on fire, shot BB gun at her, decision by RCMP conduct board says | CBC News
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They detailed incidents that included how Kitzul demeaned and belittled D.R. as fat, stupid and, on the odd occasion, ugly.
They said Kitzul knocked D.R. off a lawn chair, causing her to fall on her back, then put her in a headlock and made her choke and cough. Another time, he wrestled her to the ground and placed her arm behind her back, refusing to let go until she said, "Jason is the king," the decision says.
When it came to the BB gun, D.R. hid behind a bar in the basement while Kitzul shot at the wall above the bar. He also shot at her hip and legs, causing bruising, the conduct board's decision says.
Kitzul hit D.R. with his fist, in her shoulder, ribs and even head, claiming it was his way of showing affection. He also hit her on the buttocks or legs with things like a ping pong paddle, a small plastic hockey stick and a piece of plastic race track, the document says.
In December 2018, just before the intervention, Kitzul lit D.R.'s hair on fire with a lighter, creating a hole of missing and burned hair, the decision says. He claimed he was lighting a cigarette and the area where they were standing was quite small, so they were close together.
Charming guy.
Oh, and his defence:
Const. Jason Kitzul denied all seven allegations against him during his conduct hearing. He said he and his intimate partner, identified only as Ms. D.R. in the hearing decision, routinely engaged in mutual and consensual roughhousing behaviour and trash talked one another.
If I hadn't paid attention I'd swear this was in America because of how basically nothing happened to him.
This is beautiful
No one wanted to do much when a woman was put in danger, assaulted, abused, mistreated, belittled, disrespected or disregarded .... if no one had stepped in, she would have probably been eventually severely injured, maimed or even killed, either intentionally or accidentally (if you can call it that).
But disrespecting the RCMP and making them look bad? We have to do something about that.
Police are 40% more likely to sexually abuse and engage in domestic abuse than any other profession.
Check the stats. It surprised me too, but it makes sense. Most nurses want to help others, but for women who want power over others, there is no profession more appealing.
You know what, I having trouble finding a source for the claim that police abuse their partners more than others. I mean, the claim is made a lot, but it's trickier to find meaningful data or analysis of actual data. I suspect if we could find that, we would also find the most common profession among women.
The 40% statistic came from two studies in 1991 [PDF] and 1992 [PDF] from self reported data.The general take is that since it's self-reported that it is likely much higher (since people tend to lie about things like this). However, that data is also over 30 years old, and things could have changed since then. There's no direct data on whether it's getting better or worse, but if I may speculate a little here, I would suggest there's probably a correlation between private domestic abuse and public incidents of police violence, brutality, and killings over time.
The only data I could find on domestic abuse and the nursing profession is actually about abuse against the nurses. Notably, it was still self-reported data, from a single hospital in India (where the baseline for domestic violence is higher than in North America or Western Europe).
Unfortunately, I don't think there's a lot of good data out there. It's an inherently difficult topic to study, and even though it's important, it's unlikely that any study will produce actionable results. The limited amount of funding tends to go towards studies that can improve the world (and/or someone's pocketbook), rather than report on how it is.