The father of a man placed in a medically-induced coma after he was allegedly kicked in the head by police is demanding the officer lose his job. In the vision, an officer appears to kick down on the prone man's head before a group of police pin him down. Other angles of the arrest show a police car ramming the man before he runs away and trades blows with an officer. Police say the 32-year-old man, of no fixed address, became aggressive and damaged a police vehicle as he attempted to avoid arrest. He was later taken to hospital where his father Glenn Atkins says he was put into a coma while undergoing a head scan.

Source: Otago Daily Times September 14, 2020 21:22 UTC