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The former director of Ontario's police oversight agency says he's concerned families are being forgotten as the reinvestigations continue into several Indigenous people who died over the last 20 years in Thunder Bay, Ont.
TORONTO A police officer may now have to face a disciplinary hearing seven years after a Black teenager accused him of brutality, Ontario’s police oversight…
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“I find there are reasonable grounds disclosed during the original investigation to believe misconduct may have been committed,” Stephen Leach, the independent police review director, said.
The case arose when 19 officers, acting on a tip about a firearm, smashed in the front door of the Stanley family home. Howes rushed upstairs to where brothers Yasin and Faye Stanley were.
Legal documents show Howes kicked a prone Yasin Stanley there’s a dispute over whether he was handcuffed in the head at least once. Ultimately, police found no weapons and charged no one.
In January 2020, the investigative team was on the scene of a Victoria Avenue East building for the re-investigation into the circumstances surrounding the 2014 death of Shania Bob. (File).
THUNDER BAY - A report on the reinvestigations into nine sudden deaths involving Indigenous people in the city of Thunder Bay that has been delayed several times is expected to be complete by June.
The reinvestigations were one of the recommendations in the Office of the Independent Police Review Director’s 2018 report Broken Trust: Indigenous People and the Thunder Bay Police Service, which found systemic racism at an institutional level in the police service.