custody_injury · 2026-Q1
Special Investigations Unit (Ontario) · SIU case 26-OCI-132
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The evidence collected by the SIU, including interviews with the affected person, the subject officer and additional police and non-police witnesses, and video footage that captured the incident in part, gives rise to the following scenario. On a day in early 2026, a team of police officers, operating in plainclothes and unmarked vehicles with a unit, were looking to arrest a group of males suspected in a series of crimes. One of them - the affected person – was also subject to an arrest warrant. The team – including the subject officer and other officers – tracked the suspects to the area of a location in a city, the address of a convention centre. The officers surveilled the vehicles and the males. The affected person removed items from the trunk of their vehicle and placed them on the bed of another vehicle. After a time, the officers decided to move in to arrest the suspects. The plan was to approach the vehicles and box them in from the front and sides to prevent the males from escaping. On seeing the unmarked police vehicles converging on their location, the males entered their vehicles and tried to drive off. The driver of one vehicle moved back and forth, pushing the police vehicles in front of him sufficiently back to allow him to escape. The affected person also drove forward into the police vehicle in front of them, propelling it backwards. They then backed up and accelerated forward again, pushing the police vehicle further back. When the affected person reversed a second time, their vehicle spun to the right and came to a stop; its driver side had struck a light standard. As this was occurring, the subject officer had smashed out the driver’s window with their baton and attempted to incapacitate the affected person through the window with their CEW, but neither of their discharges were effective. With the affected person’s vehicle at rest, the subject officer and another officer struggled to remove the affected person from the driver’s seat, at least partly because the driver’s door was wedged against the light standard. The affected person was eventually forced out of the vehicle by the officers and taken to the ground where they were struck several times by the officers before being handcuffed behind the back. Paramedics attended the scene and transported the affected person to hospital where they were diagnosed with a fractured right femur.
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