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Officer charged with G20 assault blogged about
humanitarian mission to El Salvador
This
past fall, as Ontario's police watchdog unsuccessfully tried to identify
officers accused of roughing up a G20 protester, Constable Babak
Andalib-Goortani was on a humanitarian mission delivering de-commissioned
ambulances to El Salvador.
The 30-year-old policeman was
charged Tuesday, after a second probe by the Special Investigations Unit, with
assaulting Adam Nobody during the summit last June.
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So far, few details on his life and
career have emerged. A travel blog, however, documents his participation in the
Caravan of Hope, in which a crew of 19 drove seven ambulances thousands of
kilometres from Toronto to Central America, passing through the United States
and Mexico on the way.
Rev. Hernan Astudillo, who
organizes the effort, said the officer navigated for the group. He described
him as quiet, respectful and generous, with a penchant for buying food to
share. He also went by "Bob" or "Bobby," he said.
"I
could see he was a good man with a good heart," Father Astudillo
said.
In his blog, peppered with detailed
descriptions of the mountains of Mexico, Constable Andalib-Goortani writes
fondly of people met along the way.
"Poverty is rampant along the
countryside but the people still have smiles on their faces," he writes in
a Nov. 6 post. "Much is to be learned here for us who are so fortunate
with our possessions and services provided to us in our hometowns."
He expresses exasperation with some
Mexican officials who tried to squeeze money out of travellers, but writes of
the friendliness of the locals, including two police officers who were amazed
his group had driven all the way from Canada.
At the end of the trip, the crew had
dinner with El Salvador's vice-president, Father Astudillo said. The politician
presented an award of recognition for the city of Toronto, which Constable
Andalib-Goortani and a fellow officer accepted, later to be passed on to city
council.
On Wednesday, the officer went to the
SIU offices in a Toronto suburb to formally collect a summons to appear in
court Jan. 24.
Jimmy Lee, his lawyer, confirmed that
his client had worked as a front-line patrol officer, responding to emergency
calls at suburban 31 division.
The officer's father and wife did not
respond to requests for comment; a Richmond Hill condominium owned by him did
not appear to have a listed phone number.
In late November, the SIU concluded its
first investigation into Mr. Nobody's case by saying that there had
"probably" been an excessive police use of force, but it could not
identify any of the officers allegedly involved. After a war of words with
Toronto's police chief, the watchdog re-opened the case, gathered more evidence
and had Constable Andalib-Goortani charged.
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