送交者: CO 于 July 26, 2004 12:26:16:[新观察/xgc2000.net]
回答: 我女同胞遭美国土安全部官员围殴——令人发指而震惊！（图） 由 gyh 于 July 25, 2004 18:02:34:
据几小时后对这一事件进行调查，通过翻译与受害人面谈的高级特工麦克马丁说，中国女游客双眼肿得几乎睁不开，前额有大面积水肿，眼周淤伤，前额高肿一个大包。她还抱怨一只膝盖被划破。这位高级督察的证词说，女游客完全无辜。
目击证人说，罗德向女游客喷洒胡椒喷剂，将她抛到墙上，并在她跪到地面时膝顶她的头部，随后抓住她的头发将她的头撞到地面。
据被控滥用警力的罗德警官例行证词自述，中国女游客被他拉住后挥臂打他，所以他用胡椒喷剂对付她，她还抓伤他的手臂，两人都摔倒在地。
执法机构正申请搜查许可证，以对罗德进行拍照和录像来确证他是否受伤。
U.S. security officer charged with beating Chinese tourist at Canadian border
11:35 PM EDT Jul 25
CAROLYN THOMPSON
BUFFALO, New York (AP) - A Homeland Security inspector was charged Friday with violating a Chinese tourist's civil rights following an altercation that left the innocent woman's eyes nearly swollen shut and bumps and bruises on her face and head.
The incident occurred late Wednesday at the Rainbow Bridge on the U.S.-Canadian border in Niagara Falls, after Customs and Border Protection officers confiscated marijuana from a male pedestrian.
Officer Robert Rhodes, mistakenly believing the Chinese woman standing nearby was involved, allegedly sprayed her with pepper spray, threw her against a wall, kneed her in the head as she knelt on the ground and struck her head on the ground while holding her hair, according to witnesses.
The woman, whose identity was withheld in legal documents, was treated at a hospital and released.
"Subsequent investigation reveals (the victim) had nothing to do with the marijuana smuggling but was merely a tourist who happened to be in the area," a supervisor's affidavit said.
Rhodes could not be reached to comment Friday. A telephone number listed in his name was disconnected.
In his affidavit, Senior Special Agent Steven MacMartin, who interviewed the victim through an interpreter several hours later, noted that "both of her eyes were nearly swollen shut, that she had a large swollen area on the front of her forehead, that she had bruises around the eyes, and that she had a contusion high up on her forehead. (The woman) also complained of a scraped knee," MacMartin said.
In a statement written by Rhodes as part of normal procedure, Rhodes said that after the male pedestrian was found to be hiding marijuana, another officer told him to go get three women who were believed to be travelling with him.
Rhodes said he went outside and asked the Chinese woman and two other women to come into the inspection station but that they ran. He said he grabbed the nearest one and sprayed her with pepper spray when she swung her arms at him.
Rhodes said the woman scratched his arm and they both fell to the ground.
Authorities were seeking a search warrant to photograph and videotape Rhodes to determine whether he was injured.
Rhodes was charged with violating the woman's civil rights by injuring her, and could face up to 10 years in prison if convicted.