Ontario’s police watchdog has cleared three Toronto police officers of any criminal charges in connection with the arrest of a teen boy that resulted in his wrist being broken.
On Wednesday, the Special Investigations Unit released its findings into the February incident, when a 16-year-old boy broke his left wrist around the time of his arrest by the officers, who were searching for a suspect that had confronted police with a machete.
One of the responding officers, in plainclothes at the time, engaged with one of the boys, but the SIU said the officer was confronted with “a sword.” After a “short struggle,” the SIU said the 16-year-old boy was handcuffed and brought to the police cruiser, where he was pushed forward by one of the arresting officers against the vehicle.
SIU Director Joseph Martino concluded there are “no reasonable grounds to believe that any of the subject officials committed a criminal offence in connection with the complainant’s arrest and injury.” “There is a version of events proffered in the evidence that the complainant was repeatedly kicked and punched after being taken to the ground despite having surrendered voluntarily and not offered any resistance,” Martino said, adding that was contested by eyewitness evidence.
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