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Celdon was deported to Mexico and has been unable to locate to testify. Action News spoke exclusively to him after the 2005 incident. Through a Spanish interpreter, he described the force that was used during his arrest.
"The one that really hurt was the one on my stomach. I thought it was a real bullet because I got up and I wiped myself, looking for blood or a bullet hole and I didn't find one."
Officer Martin Van Overbeek said that he felt sick to his stomach after he saw Rolando Celdon being kicked and pelted with a bean bag gun over and over. Van Overbeek told the court it hasn't been easy coming forward against these officers but what happened was just wrong.
Van Overbeek described the events in detail. He said Celdon was not resisting, or attempting to flee when he was kicked by Officer Van Dalen. Van Overbeek described three kicks, "He kicked the suspect in the side like he was kicking a football. Full force." following the incident Van Dalen was referred by other officers as "place kicker Paul." On the stand Van Overbeek did say he has one regret. That he didn't scale a fence to handcuff Celdon faster. He said, "He wouldn't have had to go through the kicks or the less lethal if I would've just hopped the fence."