Philipsburg:--- An argument and the assault of a teenager has left the mother of one youth with severe injuries after two officers beat her inside the Philipsburg Police Station on Saturday night. The woman's neck has several fingernail scratches and is swollen while her hand is now in bandages as it was sprained by a twist she received from another officer.Anna De Weever is now nursing severe wounds on her neck and wrist after officers Joyce Hassle and Servania assaulted her as she was waiting for her teenage son that was being held by police. De Weever told SMN News that police arrested her son by Quiznos Saturday evening after he slapped a young lady who had other people calling him and threatening to shoot him. De Weever said when she heard that police had picked up her son she called him a number of times but he was not answering his phone.
The woman said as she continued calling her son, he finally answered his phone and told her he was at the police station. De Weever said she immediately went to the police station because her son is 17 years old and according to her, police cannot question minors without their parents or a lawyer. De Weever further explained that when she reached the police station she was invited inside a room where police officers were interrogating her son, she said she was angry that her son hit a young woman and most of all got into trouble with the law so she began to verbally reprimand him. "I was yelling at my son and police got upset with me and sent me to sit outside, so I was forced out of the room. I was sitting on the bench outside when Officer Joyce Hassle came outside and told me that I should get out of the police station. She said to me, get outside, don't make me touch you and I told her to give me my son and I would leave, then she began counting and when I did not get up she grabbed me and I was pulling my hands away from the officer who then decided to choke me. When this officer started to choke me I pulled her hair and was fighting back when officer Servania came out and started to wrench my hands, leaving my neck all scraped up and my hands swollen." De Weever said the acting prosecutor saw her injuries and advised her to see a doctor and to return to the Police Station on Monday.
"The doctor at the St. Maarten Medical Center told me that the officer who choked me could have killed me with the way she held on to the main vain in the neck."
In the meantime, Edwin Bruney Jr. (17) told SMN News that when he was taken to the police station after he slapped the young lady, police officers threatened to beat him. The young man said Officer Servania kept telling him that if he was not the son of police officer he would have received a good beating for hitting a girl. "Those officers even called me a punk for hitting a girl and they kept threatening me while I was at the Philipsburg Police Station. My mother was calling me and I told them several times it was my mother but they refused to let me answer the phone. They only allowed me to answer after my mother called a number of times." Bruney Jr. said that he knows he was wrong for hitting the young lady but he got really angry when another young man called him and threatened to shoot him because of something the young lady in question told him. "Besides that, she left her mother's house and has been stealing my sister's clothing and her friends clothing and has been lying on everybody. I confronted her with what she said to the person who called me and threatened me and she was lying again and that is when I slapped her." Bruney said when his mother got to the Police Station she started to curse him for hitting the girl even though she knew what the girl has been doing. "My mother said I had no right to hit her and while she was cursing me, the same police officers who wanted to beat me and called me a punk turned on her. Officer Servania began to push my mother outside of the police station and she told him not to touch her more than once then he pushed her outside." "Shortly after that, Officer Joyce Hassle came to me inside the room and told me that my mother would get what she is looking for now, I responded by saying if you hit my mother I will smash your car because I am her son and she did not curse you all she was cursing me for hitting that girl.
Officer Hassle then went outside and began to scream at my mother then the next thing he knew she was choking my mother. I got up and was rushing outside to assist my mother but some other officers manhandled me." Bruney Jr. said that the officers then detained his mother by taking her inside the police station where officer Hassel continued to slap his mother and banged her head on the wall a number of times. "When they saw I was looking they told me to go outside and wait for my mother. My father who is also a police officer was told to drop home the young lady I slapped while my mother was being brutalized by his colleagues."In an invited comment, Chief Commissioner of Police Peter De Witte said he was not aware of the incident. However, De Witte said the victim should file a complaint with Police Internal Affairs so that the case could be thoroughly investigated.