Lucky Strike couple allege police brutality

Even though the Police Department maintains that no officer came in contact with either Kirk Thompson or Edmund Velasquez, prior to discovering their bodies in the Maskall River on Wednesday, they were definitely in the area earlier in the week. On that same day, two residents of Lucky Strike Village, located just a few miles away from the Maskall community, came to our studio to complain about treatment they had received at the hands of the police on Tuesday. According to Howard and Theresa Coleman, the cops were in a foul mood as they searched the area for the fugitives.

Howard Coleman

“They say they get a report that I have prisoners at my house. I no have nobody there.”

Ann-Marie Williams

“You said they whop you up how, describe how they beat you.”

Howard Coleman

“Well, they whop me with a stick on my two knees, they handcuff me, then the man stand-up in the handcuff behind my back and they whop me on my shoulder and in my head. I see when the police man and the woman beat her (his wife), because I was right at home when they start to beat her.”

Inspector David Henderson, an investigating officer involved in the operation to apprehend Kirk “Psycho” Thompson, confirms that police did search the Coleman home but denies the allegations of police brutality.