“Right here I’m, 72 years previous. I shouldn’t be taking a punch from anyone, not to mention a Police Sgt,” assault sufferer Harry Horsley informed Boston 25 Information.
Horsley says he has lived close to Furnace Pond in Pembroke for nearly 36 years, and nothing like this has ever occurred to him.
Horsley’s neighbor, Scott Saunders, an 18-year veteran of the Hull Police Division is charged with assaulting Harry close to the neighborhood seaside on Monday, July twenty fourth.
A neighbor recorded a part of the violent confrontation.
In cellphone video, Horlsey will be seen on the bottom, and the off-duty police sgt on prime of him.
Horsley informed Boston 25 Information, as he was driving house that day, he noticed Saunders carrying a paddleboard on the slender road, and as he handed, Horsley says Saunders hit his automotive with the board.
So, he bought out of his automotive.
“Why did you hit my automotive? That’s all I mentioned,” Horsley informed me.
Why did you hit my automotive?
Horsley mentioned Saunders pushed him down and punched him.
“He bull-rushed me all the way down to the bottom. Landed on prime of me, I’m on my again. He pounded away, I’m like this attempting to guard myself from getting hit worse,” Horsley mentioned.
Pembroke Police have charged Saunders with Assault and Battery on a Individual Over 60.
Horsley mentioned the assault left him bloodied and bruised.
He was handled at a neighborhood hospital for his accidents.
Every week later, there are nonetheless black and blue marks on his physique.
Sgt Saunders is on paid administrative depart from the Hull Police Division
He has been a sergeant there since 2019.
“He ought to have recognized that all the pieces he has achieved, was flawed. You don’t assault anyone that’s a senior. You simply don’t do it, its remarkable,” Horsley mentioned.
Sgt. Saunders is due again in courtroom in September.
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