I know a black boy who was arrested in the south with cannabis, I know it doesn't matter if it was just a little bit but they beat him so badly and even put a gun to his head to get him to tell them where he got it from....
I also got smacked about by the police in the north some years ago when we got "ambushed" outside LTL by undercover police. They found a baseball bat in the boot of my friends car and thought we were there to fight
What made it worse was the night before me and my friends had been on TV where we danced live outside 'Extreme' nightclub. We had tried to look "cool" so we all tied our hair with loads of elastic bands. (I was only 16!!!!!!!!!!)
The police didn't find the hairstyle very cool!!!
So they took us to the police station, slapped us a few times and one of them ripped all the elastic bands off my head one by one.
We got let off cos one of them realised they knew my family...then they started to suck up to us. Idiots!
The police in Cyprus are ruthless...furthermore, giving ANY Cypriot the authority to control others is destined to end in disaster....as it has many times in Cyprus already...