TORONTO Ontario’s police watchdog has cleared three Toronto cops of any criminal wrongdoing in connection with a shooting incident at a Scarborough apartment building last year that left a man seriously injured. “They were there in response to an emergency 911 call to police from a resident on the fourth-floor reporting that the complainant was mentally unwell, armed with a knife and attempting to enter her apartment,” the Director of the Special Investigations Unit Joseph Martino said. “The first and perhaps most important piece of evidence is the cleaver that the complainant was holding.” According to the SIU, the injured man, referred to as the complainant in its report released on Wednesday, was wielding an entirely metal blade measuring about 18 centrimetres long by eight centimetres wide when officers from the Toronto Police Service’s 43 Division arrived at the scene.
Published Wednesday, February 10, 2021 10:19AM EST Ontario’s police watchdog has cleared three Toronto cops of any criminal wrongdoing in connection with a shooting incident at a Scarborough apartment building last year that left a man seriously injured. “They were there in response to an emergency 911 call to police from a resident on the fourth-floor reporting that the complainant was mentally unwell, armed with a knife and attempting to enter her apartment,” the Director of the Special Investigations Unit Joseph Martino said. “The first and perhaps most important piece of evidence is the cleaver that the complainant was holding.” According to the SIU, the injured man, referred to as the complainant in its report released on Wednesday, was wielding an entirely metal blade measuring about 18 centrimetres long by eight centimetres wide when officers from the Toronto Police Service’s 43 Division arrived at the scene.