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10 Years later they are found guilty. 10 YEARS LATER!
TPS, OPP, RCMP are not an ally to Canada or the world. They represent a national security threat as they are unaccountable and the most dishonest. Until we fix this, we will continue to slide.
Nearly 10 years after four Black teens were accosted by police on their way to a neighbourhood mentorship program in Toronto, two of the officers involved have been found guilty of misconduct.
In a Toronto Police professional misconduct hearing decision released Friday, Const. Sharnil Pais and Const. Adam Lourenco were found guilty of unlawful arrest. Lourenco was also found guilty of one count of discreditable conduct.
The charges stem from the arrest of three 15-year-olds and a 16-year-old on Neptune Drive in the Lawrence Heights neighbourhood in November 2011. Lourenco and Pais drove up in an unmarked van, stopped the teens and asked them for identification — a practice known as "carding," which is now banned in many situations.
In an interview with CBC News in 2016, one of the complainants said he asked the officers if he and his friends were under arrest.
The answer was no and the teen proceeded to try to leave.
"That's when Officer Lourenco decided to single me out and physically attacked me. He grabbed me. Then isolated me. He swore at me and said a lot of provocative things to try to aggravate me and I didn't respond," the complainant said.
TPS, OPP, RCMP are not an ally to Canada or the world. They represent a national security threat as they are unaccountable and the most dishonest. Until we fix this, we will continue to slide.
Nearly 10 years after four Black teens were accosted by police on their way to a neighbourhood mentorship program in Toronto, two of the officers involved have been found guilty of misconduct.
In a Toronto Police professional misconduct hearing decision released Friday, Const. Sharnil Pais and Const. Adam Lourenco were found guilty of unlawful arrest. Lourenco was also found guilty of one count of discreditable conduct.
The charges stem from the arrest of three 15-year-olds and a 16-year-old on Neptune Drive in the Lawrence Heights neighbourhood in November 2011. Lourenco and Pais drove up in an unmarked van, stopped the teens and asked them for identification — a practice known as "carding," which is now banned in many situations.
In an interview with CBC News in 2016, one of the complainants said he asked the officers if he and his friends were under arrest.
The answer was no and the teen proceeded to try to leave.
"That's when Officer Lourenco decided to single me out and physically attacked me. He grabbed me. Then isolated me. He swore at me and said a lot of provocative things to try to aggravate me and I didn't respond," the complainant said.