{"id":104627,"date":"2024-12-17T08:33:19","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T08:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/policeman-acquitted-in-the-supreme-court-after-the-battles-at-kongsberg-news-buskerud-local-news-tv-and-radio\/"},"modified":"2024-12-17T08:33:21","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T08:33:21","slug":"policeman-acquitted-in-the-supreme-court-after-the-battles-at-kongsberg-news-buskerud-local-news-tv-and-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/policeman-acquitted-in-the-supreme-court-after-the-battles-at-kongsberg-news-buskerud-local-news-tv-and-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Policeman acquitted in the Supreme Court after the battles at Kongsberg – news Buskerud – Local news, TV and radio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There has been a lot of excitement about the decision from the Supreme Court about the police teams in Kongsberg. This is because the verdict will have a major impact on the police’s ability to use force in similar situations in the future. Now the Supreme Court has acquitted the policeman. The policeman has been suspended from duty in the S\u00f8r\u00f8st police district pending a final sentence. Photo: Christian Ziegler Remme \/ news The decision from the Supreme Court In the judgment, it is stated that the majority of the Supreme Court has come to the conclusion that there is much evidence that the use of force was both “necessary” and “justifiable” under the Police Act. First State Attorney Thomas Fr\u00f8berg, assistant attorney \u00d8ystein Storrvik and defense attorney John Christian Elden. Photo: Anders Haualand \/ news Furthermore, it states that the decision of how strong the police should use in such a situation can be difficult to decide and must be decided quickly. – Therefore, one often has to accept the choices the service person makes in a pressured situation, even if the use of force seen from the outside, and by those it is aimed at, can be experienced as brutal, the judgment states. After a concrete assessment, the majority has come to the conclusion that the police officer can neither be punished for bodily harm nor gross misconduct. The judgment also states that a minority believed that the use of force in this case went too far and was punishable. They also believed that the police officer was liable for damages. 14 punches in 10 seconds On 30 October 2022, several people and police officers ended up in a powerful basketball attack at a petrol station in Kongsberg. There was a tense atmosphere at the front, and the policeman wanted to take Kevin Simensen with him for a chat. Simensen pulled his arm away, and the policeman put him on the ground. In April this year, Kevin Simensen and fellow victim Kristian Teigen were awarded compensation of NOK 30,000 and NOK 15,000. Photo: Caroline Utti \/ news Since Simensen did not keep calm, and fought back, and the policeman hit him with full force 14 times. The blows came within about 10 seconds. The commotion at the petrol station lasted for many minutes, and the policeman was also charged with two baton strikes against Kristian Teigen. Both said they were scared. The policeman has said he was worried about both his own safety and that of his colleagues. He believes that he acted in an emergency, since Simensen responded with strong resistance. It also turned out that Simensen had a baton and an illegal knife in his jacket, but the policeman was not aware of this when it happened. Kevin Simensen thought the blows from the policeman were unprovoked and he has said that he fought back because he was afraid. The policeman was acquitted in the district court, but sentenced to 120 days in prison in the court of appeal. Published 17.12.2024, at 09.11 Updated 17.12.2024, at 09.30
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There has been a lot of excitement about the decision from the Supreme Court about the police teams in Kongsberg. This is because the verdict will have a major impact on the police’s ability to use force in similar situations in the future. Now the Supreme Court has acquitted the policeman. The policeman has been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":104628,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[917,8826,263,868,810,151,16,2973,152,867],"class_list":["post-104627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-acquitted","tag-battles","tag-buskerud","tag-court","tag-kongsberg","tag-local","tag-news","tag-policeman","tag-radio","tag-supreme"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}