The CBC staffer who wrote this article shed little light or none on the beaten of Laurent Duhamel, 62. The writer goes to great length to tell us that it wasn't really a beating by citing only people who defend such thesis and the constable.
Duhamel have nothing to gain but everything to loose from denouncing his beating at the hand of Const. Daniel Bargh; he could be banned from the shelters and would have to sleep on the street at minus zero temperatures, harassed and beating again by police on the street.

"A surveillance video shown at an Ottawa Police Service disciplinary hearing appears to show an officer beating up a drunk, homeless man at a shelter. But the apparent victim said Thursday the officer was just trying to wake him up.
"He wanted to wake me up, and keep me in good shape. I can tell you that. He was honest and sincere," said Laurent Duhamel, 62, an alcoholic homeless man who admitted in testimony Thursday that he doesn't remember much of what happened on May 6, 2006.
This frame from a surveillance video shows Const. Daniel Bargh subduing Laurent Duhamel at Ottawa's Shepherd's of Good Hope shelter on May 6, 2006.
Const. Daniel Bargh, 25, has yet to convince his superiors that his intentions were benign. He's facing a charge of using unnecessary force under the Police Services Act."