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All of this while Toronto is $18B short on their budget, of which the unaccountable TPS are the largest line item
I guarantee you in a Police State men like Trump would have been denied the opportunity to run let alone with an election. By hook or crook as they say.
This is key to this story, to understand how your unaccountable creepy allies operate in Ontario: It would take nearly two years for Au to be charged by the SIU
www.thestar.com
A Toronto police officer who assaulted a Black teenager hours before his death narrowly missed shooting another racialized teen in the head a month later — after the officer’s colleagues wrongly profiled and detained the young man, the Star has learned.
The Special Investigations Unit (SIU) told the Star it is now reviewing its own investigation into the shooting that initially cleared the officer, to see if re-opening the case is warranted.
Const. Calvin Au is again at the centre of a serious police misconduct case. This time, criminal charges against a Toronto man — who was 18 at the time — have been thrown out by a Superior Court judge.
“This is one of those exceptional cases where the state misconduct is so egregious that moving forward with the trial would be offensive,” Justice Heather McArthur wrote in her ruling to stay charges police laid against the teen in May 2021, including five counts of aggravated assault.
Details of how Au and six police colleagues followed the teen into a Toronto Community Housing Corporation (TCHC) parking garage in Flemingdon Park, before questioning him without cause or authority, as the situation quickly escalated, is detailed in the newly released decision.
Critically, the judge found it was unreasonable for Au to use excessive force by firing four bullets at the fleeing vehicle driven by Orlando Zaragoza.
One of those bullets struck the arm of a young man who was a passenger in the car, requiring surgery, while another pierced Orlando Zaragoza’s baseball cap while he was in the driver’s seat, nearly hitting him in the head, McArthur wrote. A third bullet caused damage to Zaragoza’s arm when it hit the car’s dashboard.
Both Au and another officer, Tiberiu Stoica, who the judge found had racially profiled the teen, declined to comment through the Toronto Police Association (TPA), which represents uniformed officers.
In a statement, TPA president Clayton Campbell said the SIU had conducted a “thorough” investigation without any findings against the officers and that “adverse comments” made by a judge do not automatically equate to misconduct.
I guarantee you in a Police State men like Trump would have been denied the opportunity to run let alone with an election. By hook or crook as they say.
This is key to this story, to understand how your unaccountable creepy allies operate in Ontario: It would take nearly two years for Au to be charged by the SIU
A month after assaulting Chadd Facey, who later died, this Toronto cop shot two other racialized teenagers
Incident was a month after he assaulted Brampton teen Chadd Facey who later died.
www.thestar.com
A Toronto police officer who assaulted a Black teenager hours before his death narrowly missed shooting another racialized teen in the head a month later — after the officer’s colleagues wrongly profiled and detained the young man, the Star has learned.
The Special Investigations Unit (SIU) told the Star it is now reviewing its own investigation into the shooting that initially cleared the officer, to see if re-opening the case is warranted.
Const. Calvin Au is again at the centre of a serious police misconduct case. This time, criminal charges against a Toronto man — who was 18 at the time — have been thrown out by a Superior Court judge.
“This is one of those exceptional cases where the state misconduct is so egregious that moving forward with the trial would be offensive,” Justice Heather McArthur wrote in her ruling to stay charges police laid against the teen in May 2021, including five counts of aggravated assault.
Details of how Au and six police colleagues followed the teen into a Toronto Community Housing Corporation (TCHC) parking garage in Flemingdon Park, before questioning him without cause or authority, as the situation quickly escalated, is detailed in the newly released decision.
Critically, the judge found it was unreasonable for Au to use excessive force by firing four bullets at the fleeing vehicle driven by Orlando Zaragoza.
One of those bullets struck the arm of a young man who was a passenger in the car, requiring surgery, while another pierced Orlando Zaragoza’s baseball cap while he was in the driver’s seat, nearly hitting him in the head, McArthur wrote. A third bullet caused damage to Zaragoza’s arm when it hit the car’s dashboard.
Both Au and another officer, Tiberiu Stoica, who the judge found had racially profiled the teen, declined to comment through the Toronto Police Association (TPA), which represents uniformed officers.
In a statement, TPA president Clayton Campbell said the SIU had conducted a “thorough” investigation without any findings against the officers and that “adverse comments” made by a judge do not automatically equate to misconduct.
