'Unprovoked' police beating sends Canadian filmmaker to Rio hospital
Video footage from Rio de Janeiro show how a Toronto filmmaker documenting anti-World Cup protests was beaten Sunday by Brazilian military police, who struck him with their nightsticks and kicked him while he was on the ground.
The incident, which occurred just before Sunday’s World Cup final game, was captured on one video, showing Jason O’Hara, wearing a helmet and a gas mask and sitting on a sidewalk when one officer walked by and, cocking his leg, aimed his foot at Mr. O’Hara’s head.
In another video, shot by BBC Brazil, Mr. O’Hara is briefly seen at a street corner, bending down near a shuttered store while officers hit his back with T-shaped batons.
In a telephone interview from Rio, Mr. O’Hara, a Ryerson University graduate, said he was filming a protest that unfolded about an hour before Germany and Argentina faced off in the World Cup final.
He said he was taken to hospital for X-ray scans to an arm and leg. There were no fractures but one shin bone was exposed and required stitches.
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