custody_injury · 2025-Q4
Special Investigations Unit (Ontario) · SIU case 25-OCI-498
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The material events in question, clear on the evidence collected by the SIU, may briefly be summarized. In the morning of December 2025, Hamilton Police Service officers, including two subject officers, were dispatched to an address in the Hamilton area following a call to police about a violent incident. The complainant, in violation of a no-contact order, had visited a witness at the address and struck her in the face. The complainant and the witness had left by the time of the officers' arrival. The officers interviewed witnesses and determined there were grounds to arrest the complainant for assault. The complainant and the witness had traveled to the complainant's residence — a trailer parked at the rear of a property in the Hamilton area — and were there when the two subject officers arrived on scene shortly after 7:00 a.m. A witness officer and a special emergency worker were also present. The special emergency worker heard a female screaming from inside the trailer and alerted the other officers. Led by one of the subject officers, the officers knocked on the trailer door and directed the complainant to come out. The complainant refused to allow them entry into the trailer, asserting it was his home and they needed a warrant. The officers explained that they had exigent circumstances and demanded that he open the door or they would force their way inside. When the complainant continued to refuse, the subject officer used a baton to smash the door's glass window. Shortly after the window was broken, the complainant opened the door. The two subject officers each took hold of one side of the complainant and pulled him forward. The complainant stepped from the trailer floor to ground level, landing awkwardly on his right foot and fracturing it in the process. He was placed in a prone position on the ground and handcuffed without incident. The complainant was transported to hospital after his arrest and treated for foot fractures.
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