Calgary teen shaken up after harsh words from police officer during traffic stop
Ahmed Ghanem will never forget the words uttered to him by a Calgary police officer as he was dropping off bags of bottles at a northeast Calgary bottle depot on the morning of August 25th.
“As I was pulling the bottles out of my car, he said directly to me, that is one way to get shot,” said Ghanem.
The 18-year-old initially saw the police officer at a four-way stop near the Happy Can Bottle Depot around 9 in the morning. Ghanem says he stopped and turned into the parking lot of the depot, parked his car and started to take the bags of bottles out. It was then he alleges the police officer pulled into the lot and started yelling at him to get back in his car.
Ghanem says the officer was ticketing him for not wearing seatbelt, something the teen says is untrue.
Ghanem says he got back into his vehicle but wanted to make sure the bottles in his bag weren’t leaking so he went back outside the vehicle to double check.
“I told him I don’t want the milk to leak into my car because it stinks,” said Ghanem.
“And he said that is not my problem and that’s one way to get shot. I looked at him like ... shot with a gun? It honestly blew my mind that he said that to me.”
Ghanem says he is especially upset the officer used that kind of language because of police brutality incidents that have happened in the United States, using shooting of Jacob Blake and the killing of George Floyd as examples.
The teen says he called Calgary Police Services after the incident and alerted them to what happened.
CPS confirms, through the officer’s body camera, that an unfortunate comment was made by the officer towards the driver during a traffic stop at a parking lot.....