Police Brutality is Unacceptable
On Campus

Letter Published in The Toledo Blade on January 30, 1992.
By Siddig M. Fageir.

Editor's note: This letter was originally addressed to UT President Frank Horton. Permission has been given to The Collegian to run it as a letter to the editor. In addition, The Collegian confirmed with Mr. Frank Horton, director of UT's department of public safety, that the results of an investigation into the following matter are pending.

Dear President Horton:

This letter is to inform you that on December 26, 1991, at about 12:45 p.m., while my friend and I were walking around in Driscoll Center wasting time waiting on our friend to get done with the orientation program for International students, I was unjustly arrested by the UT police and allegedly charged with two misdemeanors - disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.

Nonetheless, such allegations and charges are yet for the court to decide on. More crucially, before the arrest my friends and I were treated very harshly by the officers, and during the arrest I was brutally beaten up by the officer who arrested my while the other two officers were watching.

The medical report shows some injuries and bruises in different parts of my body as a result of the physical abuse by the officer.

However, I feel that my constitutional rights as a US citizen and my rights as a UT student have been seriously violated, and my safety on campus as a minority student is in great danger.

I sincerely hope that you will agree with me that brutality and excessive use of force by UT police against UT students is unacceptable and should not be tolerated.

I also hope that this incident will be investigated and given respectful attention and consideration, particularly to determine whether or not it was racially motivated, because I regretfully have enough reasons to believe that it was.

Respectfully submitted,

Siddig M. Fageir, Graduate Student

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