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 Complainant and the SO , 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 4, 2025, WO #4, on patrol in a marked vehicle, came across a pick-up truck on Third Line stopped for a red light at Rebecca Street, Oakville. When the light turned green, the pick-up did not move. The officer exited his cruiser to check the driver and noticed him asleep with his head slumped forward. After banging on the window for a period, WO #4 was able to rouse the driver and directed him to pull over on the other side of the intersection. The driver was the Complainant. With him in the front passenger seat was a female – CW #1. The Complainant proceeded south through the intersection, put on his four-way flashers as if he was going to stop, and then accelerated away. WO #4 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 WO #1 in an unmarked police vehicle. The officer would come to occupy the lead cruiser in pursuit, in front of WO #4. The SO , also operating an unmarked police cruiser, intervened as well. The pursuit continued at speed for about 12 minutes. The Complainant 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 Complainant’s truck – WO #4, WO #1 and the SO – decided to perform a rolling block. In the area of the roadway’s intersection with Avonhead Road, the SO overtook the truck and began to slow in front of it. The Complainant brought the truck to an abrupt stop in front of the officer. WO #4 stopped his cruiser alongside the driver side of the truck (preventing the driver’s door from opening) and WO #1 directly behind. The time was about 12:44 a.m. The SO exited his vehicle and approached the front of WO #4’s cruiser, pointing his semi-automatic pistol at the Complainant in the driver’s seat of the truck. The officer was joined by WO #1 and WO #7, who each fired their CEW s at the Complainant through the open driver’s door window. Orders were shouted at the Complainant to exit the vehicle. The SO holstered his gun and took out his OC canister, which he sprayed at the Complainant. Shortly after, the SO climbed on top of the hood of WO #4’s cruiser, grabbed a hold of the Complainant’s leg, which had appeared through the driver’s window, and, with WO #1 and WO #7’s help, pulled the Complainant out of the truck onto the hood. The Complainant had his arms together by his chest and was on his right side on top of the hood when the SO punched him three times to the upper torso / head area. The Complainant was pulled off the hood onto the ground in front of WO #4’s cruiser. There were now about six officers surrounding the Complainant. Among them, the SO punched in the direction of the Complainant’s torso five times and WO #1 dropped his knee onto the upper body and head area two or three times. The SO then stood up and kicked at the Complainant’s right hip area six times. Shortly after, the Complainant was handcuffed, stood up and lodged in the backseat of one of the cruisers. The Complainant was transported to hospital after his arrest and diagnosed with multiple facial fractures.
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