The Special Investigations Unit (SIU) has invoked its mandate after a person was critically injured during a police interaction downtown at around 3 a.m., Toronto police say.
Ontario's police watchdog has cleared Toronto police officers of any wrongdoing after a 58-year-old man fell from a downtown hotel window and died.Watchdog says officers were trying to speak with 58-year-old man from the ground before he fellThe head of the Special Investigations Unit says there is no reason to believe Toronto police officers committed a criminal offence after a man fell out of a fourth floor window of a downtown hotel on June 15.
Ontario's police watchdog has cleared Toronto police officers of any wrongdoing after a 58-year-old man fell from a downtown hotel window and died. In a report released Friday, Joseph Martino, director of the Special Investigations Unit , said there is no reason to believe an officer committed a criminal offence in connection with the man's death.about someone throwing items onto the street from a room at the Holiday Inn Express on Lombard Street shortly before 3 a.m. on June 15.
When officers arrived, they noticed a window on the fourth floor of the hotel was broken, according to the report. Officers located the man, who was yelling.The agency said officers went up to the floor and — from outside the door of the room — attempted to speak to a man who was inside the hotel room. They were unable to get in.Shortly after, the SIU says the man, 58, fell to the street below. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The SIU is an independent government agency that investigates police conduct resulting in death, serious injury, sexual assault or the discharge of a firearm at a person.
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