custody_injury · 2025-Q4
Special Investigations Unit (Ontario) · SIU case 25-OCI-511
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The evidence collected by the SIU , including interviews with the Complainant and police eyewitnesses, and video footage that largely captured the events in question, gives rise to the following scenario. As was his legal right, the SO did not agree an interview with the SIU or the release of his notes. In the morning of December 11, 2025, acting on the authority of a Form 2 issued under the Mental Health Act , LPS officers attended an apartment in the area of Adelaide Street North and Huron Street , London. The form, authorizing police to compel the Complainant’s attendance at hospital for a psychiatric examination, had been obtained by the CW . The CW had become increasingly concerned for the Complainant’s well-being. Arriving at about 7:00 a.m. in front of the apartment door, officers attempted to have the Complainant exit the apartment. They explained who they were and why they were there. The Complainant adamantly refused to leave his apartment. Behind a barricaded front door, the Complainant variously threatened police that he would jump from the balcony and harm them or himself if they entered his residence. Officers, including a member of the service’s COAST [6] team, continued to negotiate with the Complainant attempting to dissuade him from harming himself or others. They assured him that he would not face criminal charges, and that they would simply be escorting him to hospital. The Complainant remained unreceptive. With information that the Complainant might jump from the balcony and was repeatedly threatening his life and those of the officers, the service deployed the ERU to the scene. The plan was to have ERU officers rappel from the roof to the Complainant’s balcony, preventing him from using it to jump from the building. ERU officers arrived at about 8:45 a.m. By about 9:25 a.m., four of them were harnessed and ready to descend from the rooftop – the SO , WO #1, WO #4 and WO #2. At 9:27 a.m., they started their descent. As the officers were reaching the balcony railing in question, they were confronted by the Complainant. With an aluminum baseball bat in hand, the Complainant began to swing at the officers as they were still hanging from their rappel lines, striking one of them in the left hand. The SO managed to land on the balcony and immediately became engaged in a struggle with the Complainant. The two punched at each other, and the Complainant fell to the ground. WO #4 deployed his CEW and the SO delivered a single right-handed punch to the face of the Complainant as he lay supine on the ground. Following the strike, the Complainant’s hands were handcuffed. The Complainant was taken to hospital after his arrest and diagnosed with multiple facial fractures.
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