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A Calgary police officer who punched a handcuffed man in the face during a scuffle, breaking bones into several pieces, will not be charged with any criminal offences following an investigation into the July 2015 incident.

The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team said Monday in a release that officers responded to a disturbance at a Calgary home early in the morning of July 23. When they arrived, officers saw two men struggling with a 20-year-old, including one man who said he was trying to remove him from the house because he was intoxicated and violent.

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The 20-year-old was put in the back seat of the police car and his hands were cuffed behind his back. As the officers gathered information, the man became increasingly agitated, yelling and demanding to know what was happening.

The officer who was the subject of the investigation opened the back door of the police car and saw the man had moved his cuffed hands in front of his body. The officer told the man to get out of the vehicle and tried to pull him by the arms, at which point the 20-year-old put his feet up against the car door to resist.