custody_injury · 2025-Q4
Special Investigations Unit (Ontario) · SIU case 25-OCI-470
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The evidence collected by the SIU , including interviews with the Complainant and other witnesses (police and non-police), and video footage that captured the incident in part, gives rise to the following scenario. As was their legal right, neither subject official agreed interviews with the SIU . They did authorize the release of their notes. Shortly before midnight, October 18, 2025, a team of HRPS TRU officers, including SO #1 and SO #2, were dispatched to a house in the area of Great Lakes Boulevard and Rebecca Street, Oakville, the residence of the Complainant. They arrived intending to arrest the Complainant under the Mental Health Act following a number of calls to police in which he was reported to have attacked motorists, brandishing a knife in one instance. The Complainant refused to surrender to police. Over the course of the next couple of hours, he would exit and re-enter his home through the front door, challenging the officers gathered by the road outside his house. He told them they would have to engage him physically to take him into custody. At about 2:20 a.m., as the Complainant was two to three metres away from his front door gesticulating at the officers on the roadway, SO #1 and SO #2, in the company of WO #1 and WO #2, snuck up behind him around a corner of the home. SO #1 attempted to distract the Complainant, who reacted by turning to run towards the front porch and door. SO #2, WO #1 and WO #2 discharged their CEW s and also attempted to distract the Complainant as he made it onto the front porch but no further. SO #1 cut him off before he could re-enter the house, using his left arm to tackle him against the wall adjacent the front door. Following additional CEW discharges, the Complainant’s arms were handcuffed behind the back. The Complainant was seen at hospital after his arrest and treated for a deep laceration to the scalp.
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