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 affected person and the subject officer, and other police witnesses, and video footage that captured the incident in part, gives rise to the following scenario. In the early morning of November 2025, an officer, on patrol in a marked vehicle, came across a pick-up truck stopped for a red light 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 for a period, 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 affected person. With them in the front passenger seat was a female. The affected person proceeded south through the intersection, put on their four-way flashers as if they were going to stop, and then accelerated away. The officer radioed what had happened and began to pursue the truck. Other officers heard the transmissions and headed in the area of the pursuit to assist, including another officer in an unmarked police vehicle. The officer would come to occupy the lead cruiser in pursuit, in front of the first officer. The subject officer, also operating an unmarked police cruiser, intervened as well. The pursuit continued at speed for about 12 minutes. The affected person disregarded multiple red lights, as did police 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 affected person’s truck – the officers – decided to perform a rolling block. In the area of the roadway’s intersection with Avonhead Road, the subject officer overtook the truck and began to slow in front of it. The affected person brought the truck to an abrupt stop in front of the officer. Another officer stopped their cruiser alongside the driver side of the truck and another officer directly behind. The subject officer exited their vehicle and approached the front of the other officer’s cruiser, pointing their semi-automatic pistol at the affected person in the driver’s seat of the truck. The officer was joined by other officers, who each fired their CEWs at the affected person through the open driver’s door window. Orders were shouted at the affected person to exit the vehicle. The subject officer holstered their gun and took out their OC canister, which they sprayed at the affected person. Shortly after, the subject officer climbed on top of the hood of the other officer’s cruiser, grabbed a hold of the affected person’s leg, which had appeared through the driver’s window, and, with the help of other officers, pulled the affected person out of the truck onto the hood. The affected person 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 / head area. The affected person was pulled off the hood onto the ground in front of the officer’s cruiser. There were now about six officers surrounding the affected person. Among them, the subject officer punched in the direction of the affected person’s torso five times and another officer dropped their knee onto the upper body and head area two or three times. The subject officer then stood up and kicked at the affected person’s right hip area six times. Shortly after, the affected person was handcuffed, stood up and lodged in the backseat of one of the cruisers. The affected person was transported to hospital after their arrest and diagnosed with multiple facial fractures.
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