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Oscar Bartholomew Death: 3 More Grenada Officers Charged

First Posted: 01/01/12 05:18 PM ET Updated: 01/01/12 06:19 PM ET

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Another three Grenada police officers have now been charged in connection with the death of a Toronto man.

ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada - Three more police officers in Grenada have been charged with manslaughter in the beating death of a Canadian man.

A police statement said officers Edward Gibson, Shaun Ganness and Ruddy Felix were arrested and charged Sunday in the beating death of 39-year-old Oscar Bartholomew of Toronto.

Bartholomew was visiting the eastern Caribbean country last week to see family.

Relatives have accused a group of officers of beating Bartholomew into a coma last Monday, he later died of his injuries.

They say it happened after he mistook a plainclothes female police officer for a friend and lifted her for a hug in front of a police station.

The Sunday arrests brought the number of police suspects to five. Officers Kenton Hazzard and Wendell Sylvester were charged last week.

The suspects are due to appear before a judge on Tuesday.

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CarlyQ
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08:04 PM on 01/01/2012
Five armed men against one unarmed man who wasn't even a legitimate threat.

Despicable cowards and thugs, all of them, and sadly too representative of the world's police forces these days, including Canada.
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CanadaStan
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06:18 PM on 01/01/2012
Too bad the RCMP weren't as quick to lay charges when they killed that polich guy in Vancouver.
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fromdnorth
OK I checked my micro-bio (didn't know I had one
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05:58 PM on 01/01/2012
When has that ever occurred in Canada?
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hiredshoe
Why did the least qualified get elected
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10:49 AM on 01/02/2012
A better question would be,what is a polich guy ??
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