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TPS, OPP to the creepy RCMP, no wonder our allies don't trust us.
THIS is Canada. A police state masquerading as a democracy. Have a complaint against a cop? No problem, his partner is over there go and lodge it.
We are NOT your ally.
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A Toronto man who was violently arrested at a protest over police actions during the clearing out of homeless encampments in 2021 is asking for a reinvestigation of his complaint after it was dismissed by a police investigator attached to the same station as the officers who arrested him.
Corey David lodged his complaint through Ontario’s civilian-run Office of the Independent Police Review Director, alleging Toronto Police Service officers used excessive force in arresting him outside of west downtown’s 14 Division, where a crowd of protesters gathered following arrests during the encampment clearing of Lamport Stadium Park.
As is possible under the provincial police complaints system, the investigation was assigned to an officer attached to not only the same police service, but the same police station — the same one outside of which dozens of officers lined up to police the protest.
The 14 Division investigator found David’s allegations that he was not told he was under arrest, was unlawfully arrested and subjected to unnecessary force all to be unsubstantiated.
“We say that’s a blatant breach of procedural fairness,” Vinidhra Vaitheeswaran, David’s lawyer, said in an interview after filing a request with the OIPRD for a review of the Toronto police investigation and decision.
THIS is Canada. A police state masquerading as a democracy. Have a complaint against a cop? No problem, his partner is over there go and lodge it.
We are NOT your ally.
He says he was arrested unfairly by Toronto police. His complaint was dismissed by the officers’ colleague
Corey David believes it’s unfair that the OIPRD assigned his complaint to an investigator at the same Toronto police 14 Division where he was arrested.
A Toronto man who was violently arrested at a protest over police actions during the clearing out of homeless encampments in 2021 is asking for a reinvestigation of his complaint after it was dismissed by a police investigator attached to the same station as the officers who arrested him.
Corey David lodged his complaint through Ontario’s civilian-run Office of the Independent Police Review Director, alleging Toronto Police Service officers used excessive force in arresting him outside of west downtown’s 14 Division, where a crowd of protesters gathered following arrests during the encampment clearing of Lamport Stadium Park.
As is possible under the provincial police complaints system, the investigation was assigned to an officer attached to not only the same police service, but the same police station — the same one outside of which dozens of officers lined up to police the protest.
The 14 Division investigator found David’s allegations that he was not told he was under arrest, was unlawfully arrested and subjected to unnecessary force all to be unsubstantiated.
“We say that’s a blatant breach of procedural fairness,” Vinidhra Vaitheeswaran, David’s lawyer, said in an interview after filing a request with the OIPRD for a review of the Toronto police investigation and decision.
