The Supreme Court of Canada has refused to hear a Regina police officer’s appeal of an assault conviction.
Constable Robert Power was convicted of kicking a homeless man while trying to arrest him in 2012.
He said he acted in self-defence.
Power initially was charged with assault after he kicked Edward Stonechild in May of 2012 outside a detox centre, then lied about it in his reports. The Regina Police Service fired Power after he was charged.
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Power was found guilty back in February of 2014 for Assault Causing Bodily Harm for kicking the intoxicated man.
A lower court reversed an earlier appeal acquittal.
Power was fired from the Regina Police Service but reinstated in May 2014, with the provision of a 13 month suspension. He returned to work in December of 2014 after the Hearing Officer said at the time of his order that a Criminal Code conviction, based on these circumstances, would not be sufficient to warrant Cst. Power’s dismissal.
Power will continue to work with the Regina Police Service in street crime investigations.
with files from Global News Shawn Knox