custody_injury · 2025-Q4
Special Investigations Unit (Ontario) · SIU case 25-OCI-470
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The evidence collected by the SIU, including interviews with the complainant and other witnesses (police and non-police), and video footage that captured the incident in part, gives rise to the following scenario. As was their legal right, neither subject official agreed to interviews with the SIU. They did authorize the release of their notes. Shortly before midnight in October 2025, a team of HRPS TRU officers, including two subject officers (SO #1 and SO #2), were dispatched to a residence in the Oakville area, the home of the complainant. They arrived intending to arrest the complainant under the Mental Health Act following a number of calls to police in which they were reported to have attacked motorists, brandishing a knife in one instance. The complainant refused to surrender to police. Over the course of the next couple of hours, they would exit and re-enter their home through the front door, challenging the officers gathered by the road outside. They told the officers they would have to engage physically to take them into custody. At approximately 2:20 a.m., as the complainant was two to three metres away from their front door gesticulating at the officers on the roadway, the two subject officers, in the company of two witness officers (WO #1 and WO #2), approached from behind around a corner of the home. SO #1 attempted to distract the complainant, who reacted by turning to run towards the front porch and door. SO #2, WO #1, and WO #2 discharged their CEWs and also attempted to distract the complainant as they made it onto the front porch but no further. SO #1 cut them off before they could re-enter the house, using their left arm to tackle the complainant against the wall adjacent the front door. Following additional CEW discharges, the complainant's arms were handcuffed behind their back. The complainant was seen at hospital after their arrest and treated for a deep laceration to the scalp.
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