2-year sentence for VPD officers brutal beating sends the wrong message: Union – BC [Video]

A B.C. man who was caught on camera violently attacking a Vancouver police patrol sergeant in August 2021, received a sentence much shorter than the Crown was asking for, and one the Vancouver Police Union says sends a troubling message about the value placed on officer safety.

Carlo Telechea, 28, pleaded guilty in April 2023 to the aggravated assault of Sgt. Anil Singh, and to disarming a peace officer.

“Mr. Telechea exploded up at Sgt. Singh and began attacking him,” B.C. Supreme Court Justice Wendy A. Baker wrote in her reasons for sentence.

Around 5:30 a.m. on Aug. 17, 2021, Singh was responding to a call about a person trespassing in a downtown Vancouver hotel lobby and refusing to leave, when he ended up fighting for his life and being beaten with his own baton.

CCTV footage entered as exhibits during an August 2024 sentencing hearing shows Telechea acting in …