custody_transport_injury · 2026-Q1
Special Investigations Unit (Ontario) · SIU case 26-TCI-117
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The evidence collected by the SIU, including interviews with the complainant and police witnesses, and video footage that captured the incident in part, gives rise to the following scenario. As was their legal right, neither subject officer agreed to an interview with the SIU. They did authorize the release of their notes. In the evening of early 2026, the officers were on patrol operating a marked cruiser. At about 9:41 p.m., the officers began to follow a vehicle for failing to stop at a red light before making a right turn onto a street and heading south. The vehicle quickly turned left into an apartment complex and then left again onto a ramp to the underground parking for a building. The cruiser, its emergency lights activated while stopped behind the vehicle, followed the vehicle as the entry gate rose and the garage door opened. The complainant was driving the vehicle. He continued down a lane between rows of parking spaces, reversed into a parking spot and exited his vehicle. He was immediately confronted by an officer asking where he was going. The officers had stopped their cruiser short of the vehicle in the lane. The complainant walked past the officers and towards a wall, against which he began to urinate. He was pinned against the wall by an officer while he continued to relieve himself, after which he began to struggle against both officers as they tried to control his arms behind the back. The complainant was told he had failed to stop for police. The parties struggled for about five minutes. With the assistance of additional officers, the complainant was handcuffed and taken into custody. He had been forced to the ground, punched twice in the head by an officer and drive-stunned multiple times in the back by another officer. The complainant was transported to hospital and diagnosed with rhabdomyolysis, which was attributed to trauma and the use of the CEW.
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