Ontario's Superior Court of Justice has ruled that police officers who fatally shot a mentally ill man in crisis in 2020 should not have their names shielded from the public.
Should police officers who fatally shot a mentally ill man in crisis have their names shielded from the public? That's the question facing Ontario's Superior Court of Justice as a hearing gets underway Tuesday in a lawsuit by the family of Ejaz Choudry killed by police in 2020, after his family called a non-emergency line for help.
The five officers involved in the shooting death of Ejaz Choudry have failed to provide the evidence needed to cast aside open court principles and justify shielding their identities from the public, lawyers representing Choudry s family argued at a Tuesday hearing.
The five officers involved in the shooting death of Ejaz Choudry have failed to provide the evidence needed to cast aside open court principles and justify shielding their identities from the public, lawyers representing Choudry s family argued at a Tuesday hearing.
Lawyers for the five police officers involved in the 2020 shooting death of Mississauga father Ejaz Choudry will argue that their clients’ identities should be kept hidden within ongoing civil proceedings at a hearing in a downtown Toronto courtroom on Tuesday.