custody_injury · 2025-Q4
Special Investigations Unit (Ontario) · SIU case 25-OCI-511
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The evidence collected by the SIU, including interviews with the affected person and police eyewitnesses, and video footage that largely captured the events in question, gives rise to the following scenario. As was their legal right, the subject officer did not agree to an interview with the SIU or the release of their notes. In the morning of late 2025, acting on the authority of a Form 2 issued under the Mental Health Act, police officers attended an apartment in London. The form, authorizing police to compel the affected person’s attendance at hospital for a psychiatric examination, had been obtained. The person who obtained the form had become increasingly concerned for the affected person’s well-being. Arriving at about morning hours in front of the apartment door, officers attempted to have the affected person exit the apartment. They explained who they were and why they were there. The affected person adamantly refused to leave their apartment. Behind a barricaded front door, the affected person variously threatened police that they would jump from the balcony and harm them or themselves if they entered their residence. Officers, including a member of the service’s crisis team, continued to negotiate with the affected person attempting to dissuade them from harming themselves or others. They assured them that they would not face criminal charges, and that they would simply be escorting them to hospital. The affected person remained unreceptive. With information that the affected person might jump from the balcony and was repeatedly threatening their life and those of the officers, the service deployed the emergency response unit to the scene. The plan was to have officers rappel from the roof to the affected person’s balcony, preventing them from using it to jump from the building. Officers arrived and were harnessed and ready to descend from the rooftop. As they were reaching the balcony railing, they were confronted by the affected person. With an aluminum baseball bat in hand, the affected person began to swing at the officers as they were still hanging from their rappel lines, striking one of them. An officer managed to land on the balcony and immediately became engaged in a struggle with the affected person. The two punched at each other, and the affected person fell to the ground. An officer deployed their CEW and another officer delivered a single punch to the face of the affected person as they lay on the ground. Following the strike, the affected person’s hands were handcuffed. The affected person was taken to hospital after their arrest and diagnosed with multiple facial fractures.
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