A HAITIAN man whose rough arrest was captured in a viral video has alleged that an immigration officer told him he was beaten because he has a job at BTC when many Bahamians can’t find employment. Evince Gaston, 31, travelled in a BTC van to a Haitian village on Joe Farrington Road where he encountered immigration officers on Friday. An altercation followed between himself and three immigration officers, which was captured on cell phone video. The altercation, he alleged yesterday, left him with bloodshot eyes, a scrape on his face and minor bruises to his back and neck. In the video, an officer hits him in the back of his head, shouting “don’t play with me” and “boy catch yourself, boy catch yourself!” In a second video, Mr Gaston is presumed to be on the ground being restrained by several officers crowded around him. The videos don’t capture what initially happened, Mr Gaston said yesterday. “I was on my BTC job,” he said. “Immigration meet me there doing my job. One of them come to me and ask me for my paper and my wallet was in the van. They don’t give me chance to go get it, they just slap me, they punch me on my face couple times.”

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