RCMP constable Andy Yung acquitted of assault on teen

Constable Andy Yung, the Williams Lake RCMP officer who punched a First Nations teen in the face, has been acquitted of an assault charge. On April 22 a judge ruled that Yung acted reasonably during the arrest of an 18-year-old girl in 2011. “It’s been a hard, long year-and-a-half. We thought we were going to get justice. And everything just didn’t go the way we thought it was going to go,” said the teens mother. Yung admitted he punched the girl in the face while she was handcuffed in the back seat of his cruiser because she was drunk, agitated and had her legs wrapped around his head. Though the girl said Yung punched her six times, the judge found her testimony to be inconsistent and evasive.