A 21-year-old man was fined $2,400 for a string of offences including threatening and swearing at Police.

Tuare Beek, from Sandys, pleaded guilty to violently resisting arrest and using threatening and offensive words on November 12.

Prosecutor Karen King said police monitoring CCTV saw Beek fighting with a woman in Pembroke.

Officers went to the scene and found Beek and the woman in a heated argument.

Beek told them: "F**k you. I don't know you. What the f**k are you doing?"

The officers then attempted to arrest Beek who struggled, shouting: "Today is my child's birthday, and I can't see him?"

Police arrested Beek for using offensive words and took him to Hamilton Police Station. While there, Beek told an officer: "You're lucky I'm in custody 'cause I'll f**k you up."

Beek told Magistrates' Court that he felt disrespected when police approached him, and lashed out.

"When they got to me I had my son in my arms. They were arresting me on my son's birthday with my son watching," he said.

Asked by Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner why he threatened the officer in the station, Beek said: "He was talking s**t.

"He was sitting there laughing at me. He was talking s**t. You have got to treat a human like a human."

Mr Warner fined Beek a total of $2,400 for the three offences, saying: "Perhaps you should try treating people like humans."