custody_injury · 2026-Q1
Special Investigations Unit (Ontario) · SIU case 26-OCI-001
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The evidence collected by the SIU, including interviews with the complainant and other witnesses, and video footage that largely captured the incident, 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 early January 2026, staff at a housing support centre in Newmarket contacted police to have a woman – the complainant – removed from the facility. The complainant was causing a disturbance and had behaved rudely to staff. She was subject to an order prohibiting her attendance at the centre. The subject officer arrived on scene and approached the complainant, who was seated on a sofa in the reception area. The officer stood a distance from her and explained that she needed to leave. The complainant refused to leave. After a period of further conversation, the subject officer approached the complainant and took hold of her left arm. The complainant moved down the sofa away from the officer, flailed her legs, and fought against efforts to take her into custody. The struggle moved to the floor, where the subject officer attempted to wrestle control of her arms behind her back. The complainant resisted strenuously for approximately a minute and a half, even as the officer tried to keep her pinned to the floor. It was only with the arrival of two additional officers that the complainant was handcuffed with her hands behind her back. Following her arrest, the complainant was transported to hospital and diagnosed with a broken nose.
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