Posted: 20 Apr 2015 01:09 AM PDT
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Muslim teenager swept up in Melbourne’s weekend terror raids claims a
police officer kicked him in the head while his family accused police of
shouting racial abuse at them, claims which have triggered an internal
police inquiry.
Eathan Cruse, of Eumemmerring in the city’s south-east, was arrested when his home was targeted during Saturday’s police raids involving 200 officers.
He said his sisters were dragged from the home by their hair during the pre-dawn raids and he spent six hours in hospital after being injured during his arrest.
“He kicks me right across the face as my hands were cuffed,” he told Seven and Nine News in interviews on Sunday in his family home.
The teenager was released without charge later on Saturday.
“I’d like an apology,” he added. “I’ve done nothing wrong. I’d like them to prove I’ve done something wrong.”
His father Glen claimed police shouted racial abuse at the family.
“I got a boot right in the head and they said, ‘Shut up, you Abo’, and I could hear Eathan … getting knocked out cold,” he told Fairfax Media.
He said that, of those taken into police custody during the raids, only his family had been treated in this way. “We are the [only] indigenous family of the lot, and we got the worst treatment.”
He confirmed his son had gone to school and was friends with Numan Haider, the 18-year-old shot dead by police after he stabbed two officers outside Endeavour Hills police station last September.
His friend Numan used to sleep over at his house, Eathan said. “He was a good guy. The media have made him out to be a bad guy.”
Victoria Police have launched an internal investigation into the family’s claims of police brutality.
“That complaint has been referred to our professional standards command,” a police spokesman said.
Another young man involved in the raids is still being held under anti-terror laws, used for the first time in Victoria to detain someone without charge for up to two weeks.
His sister said the raids came as a shock to her family.
“I woke up to a sniper pointing [a gun] at my head at 4am,” she said. “We had all of them come into the house, they kicked in the doors, tear gas was used and they cleared each room. They pulled my nine-year-old brother out of his bed.”
The Australian Federal Police searched the family’s home for 12 hours. The ABC reported police seized a knife, phones and a USB from the accused man’s bedroom.
The family was told on Saturday that the man was being held under the first interim preventative detention order (PDO) used in Victoria under the 2003 Terrorism Act.
She said the man had spoken to his father briefly on Saturday night, but that the family had not heard from him or police since.
The sister said her brother had never shown extremist beliefs and the allegations against him came as a shock to the family.
She knew her brother had been to the Al-Furqan Bookshop a “couple” times, but could not say who introduced him to the Springvale South shop.
She said she had never heard of any of the other young men arrested in the raids, nor did her brother know Numan Haider.
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Eathan Cruse, of Eumemmerring in the city’s south-east, was arrested when his home was targeted during Saturday’s police raids involving 200 officers.
He said his sisters were dragged from the home by their hair during the pre-dawn raids and he spent six hours in hospital after being injured during his arrest.
“He kicks me right across the face as my hands were cuffed,” he told Seven and Nine News in interviews on Sunday in his family home.
The teenager was released without charge later on Saturday.
“I’d like an apology,” he added. “I’ve done nothing wrong. I’d like them to prove I’ve done something wrong.”
His father Glen claimed police shouted racial abuse at the family.
“I got a boot right in the head and they said, ‘Shut up, you Abo’, and I could hear Eathan … getting knocked out cold,” he told Fairfax Media.
He said that, of those taken into police custody during the raids, only his family had been treated in this way. “We are the [only] indigenous family of the lot, and we got the worst treatment.”
He confirmed his son had gone to school and was friends with Numan Haider, the 18-year-old shot dead by police after he stabbed two officers outside Endeavour Hills police station last September.
His friend Numan used to sleep over at his house, Eathan said. “He was a good guy. The media have made him out to be a bad guy.”
Victoria Police have launched an internal investigation into the family’s claims of police brutality.
“That complaint has been referred to our professional standards command,” a police spokesman said.
Another young man involved in the raids is still being held under anti-terror laws, used for the first time in Victoria to detain someone without charge for up to two weeks.
His sister said the raids came as a shock to her family.
“I woke up to a sniper pointing [a gun] at my head at 4am,” she said. “We had all of them come into the house, they kicked in the doors, tear gas was used and they cleared each room. They pulled my nine-year-old brother out of his bed.”
The Australian Federal Police searched the family’s home for 12 hours. The ABC reported police seized a knife, phones and a USB from the accused man’s bedroom.
The family was told on Saturday that the man was being held under the first interim preventative detention order (PDO) used in Victoria under the 2003 Terrorism Act.
She said the man had spoken to his father briefly on Saturday night, but that the family had not heard from him or police since.
The sister said her brother had never shown extremist beliefs and the allegations against him came as a shock to the family.
She knew her brother had been to the Al-Furqan Bookshop a “couple” times, but could not say who introduced him to the Springvale South shop.
She said she had never heard of any of the other young men arrested in the raids, nor did her brother know Numan Haider.
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Imagine being a vulnerable young man who has spent last 12 months unable to sleep, suicidal, experiencing nightmares fearing that the security agencies will come after you via the windows and storm through your home and beat you up and take you away, and being informed by therapists that this belief is highly unlikely and somewhat irrational. Imagine this fear actually taking place where the irrational fear becomes your reality.– Hanan Dover
On top of that, your family members are also dragged out walking on broken glass & bleeding, mishandled, your mother fainting, and family members terrorised. Later that day, you are released and not even charged with terrorism. Better still, you don’t even know when ANZAC Day is despite the false claim made by authorities to create a national hysteria.
Worse still, the damage has to be repaired by the family, no apologies made, and the victim had to be admitted to a psychiatric ward after being released by authorities. #OnlyGuiltyWhenMuslim
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