A magistrate has slammed the "cruel and degrading" actions of two ACT Policing officers, saying they breached a man's human rights when they hauled him out of his car, threw him to the ground and left him face down in a gutter with his hands cuffed.
Magistrate James Lawton took aim at the pair's "outrageous" conduct on Friday as he dismissed a charge levelled at Dominic Doherty, saying police had obtained evidence of him refusing to undergo a roadside screening test after unlawfully assaulting him.
