custody_injury · 2025-Q4
Special Investigations Unit (Ontario) · SIU case 25-OCI-457
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The evidence collected by the SIU , including interviews with the Complainant, SO #1 and other witnesses (police and non-police), and video footage that captured the incident in part, gives rise to the following scenario. As was his legal right, SO #2 did not agree an interview with the SIU or the release of his notes. In the evening of November 12, 2025, BPS officers, including SO #1 and SO #2, attended an apartment in the area of Grand River Avenue and Morrell Street, Brantford. The resident – the CW – had contacted police to report that an inebriated Complainant was in her apartment and she wanted him removed. The officers entered the apartment and approached the Complainant in the living room. He was seated on a sofa and speaking on the phone with a police call-taker. After a period, the Complainant ended his conversation on the phone, stood up from the sofa and walked a short distance towards the door. Just before the door, SO #1 and WO #1 took a hold of his arms. The Complainant attempted to free his arms and the officers maintained their grip. Other officers intervened and the Complainant fell forward to the floor, striking his head off the edge of a wall in the process. Officers fell with the Complainant and landed on top of him. He was handcuffed in quick order and taken into custody. Following his arrest, the Complainant was transported to hospital and diagnosed with a reduced level of consciousness and a scalp laceration with emphysema and subgaleal hematoma.
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