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 complainant and police eyewitnesses, and video footage that largely captured the events in question, gives rise to the following scenario. The subject officer did not agree to an interview with the SIU or the release of their notes, as was their legal right. In the morning of Q4 2025, acting on the authority of a Form 2 issued under the Mental Health Act, London Police Service (LPS) officers attended an apartment in the London area. The form, authorizing police to compel the complainant's attendance at hospital for a psychiatric examination, had been obtained by a witness officer, who had become increasingly concerned for the complainant's well-being. Arriving at approximately 7:00 a.m. in front of the apartment door, officers attempted to have the complainant exit the apartment. They explained who they were and why they were there. The complainant adamantly refused to leave. Behind a barricaded front door, the complainant variously threatened police that they would jump from the balcony and harm officers or themselves if they entered the residence. Officers, including a member of the service's COAST team, continued to negotiate with the complainant, attempting to dissuade them from harming themselves or others. They assured the complainant that they would not face criminal charges and that they would simply be escorted to hospital. The complainant remained unreceptive. With information that the complainant might jump from the balcony and was repeatedly threatening their life and those of the officers, the service deployed the Emergency Response Unit (ERU) to the scene. The plan was to have ERU officers rappel from the roof to the complainant's balcony, preventing them from using it to jump from the building. ERU officers arrived at approximately 8:45 a.m. By approximately 9:25 a.m., four of them were harnessed and ready to descend from the rooftop — the subject officer and three witness officers. At approximately 9:27 a.m., they started their descent. As the officers were reaching the balcony railing, they were confronted by the complainant. With an aluminum baseball bat in hand, the complainant began to swing at the officers as they were still hanging from their rappel lines, striking one of them in the left hand. The subject officer managed to land on the balcony and immediately became engaged in a struggle with the complainant. The two exchanged punches, and the complainant fell to the ground. One witness officer deployed their conducted energy weapon (CEW) and the subject officer delivered a single right-handed punch to the face of the complainant as they lay supine on the ground. Following the strike, the complainant was handcuffed. The complainant was taken to hospital after their arrest and diagnosed with multiple facial fractures.
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