From Brent Kite himself. Tells the whole story!
IM OK 👍
Thanks to everyone who checked in with me after 6 QBN Police officers surrounded my car and begun to smash my passenger and driver’s windows in (it takes upto 6 blows with the metal baton) the glass sprayed at my face, eyes and body causing tiny cuts that brought a lot of blood from my forearms n lip. As the window gives way only centimetres from my head I cover my temple instinctively, I’m hit at least 2 more times wearing shots on my forearm/shoulder. What started as me attempting to stand up for my rights ends up for me fearing for my life. Finally being told to get face down on the concrete, hands behind back to be handcuffed like a criminal in the most undignified way.
My crime? Failing to produce license, so here’s a bit of background:
"It is an ancient principle of the Common Law that a person not under arrest has no obligation to stop for police or answer their questions. And there is no statute that removes that right. The conferring of such a power on apolice officer would be a substantial detraction from the fundamental freedoms which have been guaranteed to the citizen b the Common Law for centuries”
Justice Stephen Kaye - Melbourne Supreme Court ruling - 25 November 2011
☝️That’s Supreme Court ruling friends, your old mate ain’t getting this off YouTube.
I did not resist arrest, I didn’t produce my license and I didn’t blow in there machine, which I believe is my right. I actually said if you arrest me I’ll give ID and was prepared to go peacefully.
I was only arrested in the back of the Paddy wagon AFTER “QBNs finest” saw me not producing license, so threatening as to smash and grab me outta my car, assault me with metal baton and humilate me in front of a crowd of people from my home town, the town that I love and have represented with pride in my career and life.
I still love Q town but these Cops did not follow their own protocol, I really was naïve that the older Cops from the station who recognised me, who know my character, still treated me like a criminal and if it can happen to me it can happen to anyone. My sister and brother who are darker than me have been discriminated against by QBN police in the past. Now these Unrighteous copper’s wanna bring the fight to my door, I’m gonna hold them to account.
To the rude, disrespectful young Cops “skinnywilson” and “redheadivers” I’ll see you in court 😉