custody_injury · 2025-Q4
Special Investigations Unit (Ontario) · SIU case 25-OCI-446
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The evidence collected by the SIU, including interviews with the complainant and the subject officer, other police witnesses, and video footage that captured the incident in part, gives rise to the following scenario. In the early morning of Q4 2025, a witness officer on patrol in a marked vehicle came across a pick-up truck stopped for a red light at an intersection in Oakville. When the light turned green, the pick-up did not move. The officer exited their cruiser to check the driver and noticed them asleep with their head slumped forward. After banging on the window, the officer was able to rouse the driver and directed them to pull over on the other side of the intersection. The driver was the complainant, who had a passenger in the front seat. The complainant proceeded through the intersection, activated four-way flashers as if about to stop, then accelerated away. The witness officer radioed what had happened and began to pursue the truck. Other officers heard the transmissions and headed to the area to assist, including a second witness officer in an unmarked police vehicle who came to occupy the lead cruiser in the pursuit. The subject officer, also operating an unmarked police cruiser, intervened as well. The pursuit continued at speed for about 12 minutes. The complainant disregarded multiple red lights, as did the pursuing officers. A spike belt was deployed in front of the pick-up truck at one point, causing damage to the truck's front driver side tire. As the pursuit turned onto eastbound Lakeshore Road West from Winston Churchill Boulevard in Mississauga, the three vehicles closest to the complainant's truck decided to perform a rolling block. Near an intersection along that roadway, the subject officer overtook the truck and began to slow in front of it. The complainant brought the truck to an abrupt stop. A witness officer stopped their cruiser alongside the driver side of the truck, preventing the driver's door from opening, and another witness officer stopped directly behind. The subject officer exited their vehicle and approached, pointing a semi-automatic pistol at the complainant in the driver's seat. The subject officer was joined by two witness officers, who each fired their CEWs at the complainant through the open driver's door window. Orders were shouted at the complainant to exit the vehicle. The subject officer holstered their gun and deployed OC spray at the complainant. Shortly after, the subject officer climbed onto the hood of a cruiser, grabbed the complainant's leg, which had appeared through the driver's window, and with the assistance of two witness officers pulled the complainant out of the truck onto the hood. The complainant had their arms together by their chest and was on their right side on top of the hood when the subject officer punched them three times to the upper torso and head area. The complainant was then pulled off the hood onto the ground in front of a cruiser. With approximately six officers surrounding the complainant, the subject officer punched in the direction of the complainant's torso five times, and a witness officer dropped their knee onto the complainant's upper body and head area two or three times. The subject officer then stood up and kicked at the complainant's right hip area six times. Shortly after, the complainant was handcuffed, stood up, and placed in the backseat of one of the cruisers. The complainant was transported to hospital following arrest and diagnosed with multiple facial fractures.
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