Female police officer threatens to smash camera at Kings Cross

Steve Deeks and Geoff Chambers
The Daily Telegraph
Oct. 29, 2010

A POLICEWOMAN has been caught on camera threatening to "smash" a photographer's phone as he filmed a routine arrest in King Cross.

The female officer is seen on the video walking a short distance from an arrest on Darlinghurst Road to confront several cameramen who were filming on public property.

The arrested man, who was pinned on the ground by four officers and later charged with resisting police, was heard screaming and witnesses allegedly saw one of the officers "putting their knees into his head'' during a violent confrontation about 2am.

After the man was restrained, the female officer allegedly approached a photographer and aggressively shoved him in the chest.

An officer told the photographer "you wanker, you're such a hero''.

Not long after the female officer is heard to say, `turn it (the mobile camera) off now before I smash it on the ground'.

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