Allegations of police brutality are as old as the department. Today a man who says he was born and raised in San Pedro, claims that while he was in police lockdown between last Thursday evening and Friday morning, he was repeatedly brutalized by a police officer in the presence of other officers who did not intervene. To add insult to injury, twenty one year old Denton Haylock says he wants the officer to pay for his mounting medical bills and for the period he will not be able to work. We met Haylock in the cargo section at Maya Island Air in Belize City as he was heading to get medical treatment.

Denton Haylock, Claims Police Brutality

"Police dehn pick me up and escort me to the station. They neva plan fi do me nothing. Afterwards they ask me fi my belongings-hat and thing and money-I neva even mi got time fi sign up fi that because I noh know weh dehn ker me fa. As I reach inna di cell, dehn put on my handcuff fi mek I sleep. Every lee while, like half an hour fi di night, they shock mi up so I just jump up and thing. And then the guys dehn weh deh in deh say no fi make noise or dehn wah start stomp me up and thing. So I couldn't ah mi mek no noise and thing. But every time when dehn shock me, I just jump up again and that dah like every half an hour until day done mein. Around three o'clock the morning, the police come in, noh even tek off my handcuff, shock me up, come kick me up, scrape my head and all kinda thing mein. One officer."

Marion Ali

"And others were there?"

Denton Haylock

"Yeah. Lot a officers mi deh deh."

Marion Ali

"And they didn't intervene?"

Denton Haylock

"No."

Marion Ali

"Did you resist arrest? Did you put up a fight?

Denton Haylock

"No, none at all. I no resist arrest. They neva say I am under arrest. They walk me to the station and then when I reach deh I wahn know why they want mek I sign fi my hat and my money fa. No reason, I noh got time fi sign for that. How Mister Haylock lock me down."

Marion Ali

"Have you been charged with anything?"

Denton Haylock

"None at all. My ma tek care ah me and I just gone dah di clinic today. Pay whatsoever to check my injuries to see if my foot bruk or anything. It never bruk or damage or nothing dah just bruise and thing. But then I can’t put down my foot pan the ground. I mi have to go through wah ex-ray, two injections-left and right-just fi try mek my foot start move. Now the lady seh she can’t tek care of me more because she no sure if matter deh inna my foot way to the bottom. As you can see watch how deh so look. That dah just outside weh you see so she just send me dah different doctor or nurse."

Marion Ali

"How long will you be like this?"

Denton Haylock

"I think bout wahn week and a half so I could walk good again. He hafto pay back my doctor bill and thing weh I di lose fa. I have to go dah work and make money just like he. If I mi damage he, he mi wahn either yeah."

Marion Ali

"So you wahn can’t work for how long?"

Denton Haylock

"Wah week and a half."

Haylock first sought medical care at a private clinic on the island and says that combined he has spent around two thousand dollars. He says he will lodge a formal complaint with the Police Internal Affairs Unit while he is in Belize City.

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