MONTREAL – Stéfanie Trudeau, better known by her badge number 728, was give a 12-month suspended sentence, as well as 60 hours of community service after being found guilty of assault in relation to a violent arrest in October 2012.
At the Montreal courthouse, lawyers for Trudeau had argued for an absolute or conditional discharge so that she can visit family in the United States.
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The incident was caught on a cellphone video arresting Rudi Orchiette for drinking on the street during the 2012 Maple Spring student protests.
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Trudeau and a trainee approached him and asked him to identify himself.
After he asked why, she forcibly restrained him for refusing to identify himself.
The incident was caught on cellphone video by a friend of Orchiette’s, Serge Lavoie, who is heard insulting the officer in the video.
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Trudeau then chased Lavoie and caught up to him in a stairwell on Papineau Avenue where she arrested him, holding him in a choke-hold as she forced him down the stairs.
The judge ruled that Trudeau had used excessive force when she arrested Lavoie.
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She was suspended shortly after the incident and quit the force in September 2015.
Trudeau is appealing the conviction.
— With a file from La Presse Canadienne
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