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Closed-circuit TV video of the incident shows Lindsay punching the suspect in the back of the head three times as he was pinning him to his cruiser and Haworth was turning his head towards the officer.

Lindsay then tossed the handcuffed man to the pavement.

Haworth suffered a fractured skull and trauma to the brain in the May 25, 2015, incident.

Lindsay told his sergeant who raced to the scene that Haworth had tried to spit blood on him.

The man’s brother told Crown prosecutor John Baharustani he visited the complainant at Foothills Medical Centre on May 28.

“We were notified that Daniel was in the hospital from his girlfriend,” Haworth said.

“She sent my wife a Facebook message saying Daniel had assaulted a police officer in jail and from there was taken to the hospital.”

At the hospital he said his brother seemed agitated.

“He was tied down to the bed and was kind of incoherent, I imagine he must have been on pain medicine, sedatives,” he said.

“He just wanted to leave. Any time the police officers would come to the door to tell him to be quiet, he’d scream at them.”

Haworth said his brother’s memory loss following the incident resulted in him having to take notes at work to remember things.

He also missed rehab meetings he forgot about, resulting in his expulsion from a program.