Parts of the "Universal Free Press" piece linked to in the OP were excerpted verbatim from a major Canadian news source. The video at that link is also a news report from an Edmonton news station.
There's an update on the original story that UFP took from the major Canadian source. The cop who did the beating is on desk duty for at least the duration of the investigation that ensued from the story going somewhat viral over the last couple of days.
I have faith in nearly anyone truly interested in the story to be able to find links to credible news sources with less than 10 seconds of searching just like I did, so I'm not posting a link as kind of an experiment to see who is truly interested and who ain't.
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