Last Updated Monday, December 14, 2020 1:30PM EST The province’s police watchdog has cleared police of criminal wrongdoing in the shooting death of a 26-year-old Black man suffering from mental illness in Brampton last April. On the evening of April 6, 2020 at 5:34 p.m., D’Andre Campbell called police to his home, the Special Investigations Unit (SIU) said. Campbell, who had a diagnosis of schizophrenia, told dispatchers that his mother and father “were trying to start an argument with him,” and asked for police to come their house on Sawston Circle. Yvonne Campbell, D’Andre’s mother, let the two police officers inside her home.
TORONTO The province’s police watchdog has cleared officers of criminal wrongdoing in the shooting death of a 26-year-old Black man suffering from mental illness in Brampton, Ont. last April. On the evening of April 6, 2020 at 5:34 p.m., D’Andre Campbell called police to his home, the Special Investigations Unit (SIU) said. Campbell, who had a diagnosis of schizophrenia, told dispatchers that his mother and father “were trying to start an argument with him,” and asked for police to come their house on Sawston Circle. Yvonne Campbell, D’Andre’s mother, let the two police officers inside her home.