Francique family calling for investigation into his shooting death be reopened after police officer cleared
by News Staff
Last Updated May 4, 2021 at 9:52 pm EDT
A Peel Regional Police vehicle in an undated file photo (TWITTER/@PeelPolice)
Three months after the province’s police watchdog cleared a Peel police officer in the shooting death of 28-year-old Jamal Francique in Mississauga last year, counsel for his family has released a comprehensive legal inquiry interim report addressing his killing.
Lawyer for Francique’s family, Knia Singh, claims criminal negligence causing death was committed.
Singh says the comprehensive legal inquiry is the first of its kind, “it is a response to the SIU report, and a call on behalf of many affected communities and members of police violence for a reopening of this investigation.”
Posted: May 04, 2021 11:22 PM ET | Last Updated: May 5
At a June 13, 2020 vigil and rally for Jamal Francique, family members displayed photos of him. Francique, 28, was shot in the back of the head while in his car during an attempted arrest on Jan. 7, 2020. He was put on life support and died in hospital two days later.(Michael Charles Cole/CBC)
A lawyer for the family of a Black man shot and killed by a Peel Regional Police officer in January 2020 is calling on Ontario s police watchdog to reopen its investigation into the fatal shooting.
Knia Singh J.D., principal lawyer at Ma at Legal Services, says the Special Investigations Unit (SIU), which cleared a police officer in the killing of Jamal Francique, based its decision on a flawed investigation.
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Lawyers for the family of Jamal Francique are calling for a reopening of the Special Investigation Unit’s (SIU) probe into his police shooting death and the laying of charges against Peel Regional Police.
A 46-page “legal inquiry” released Tuesday by Ma’at Legal Services into the circumstances surrounding the killing of the 28-year-old argues that there are so many “errors, omissions, contradictions and inconsistencies” in the SIU’s probe that the laying of charges against six drug squad officers involved in the incident is the only way to determine the true facts.
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The province’s Special Investigations Unit has cleared a Peel Regional police officer of wrongdoing in the shooting death of Jamal Francique. But what Francique family lawyer Knia Singh describes as “glaring deficiencies” in the SIU’s report has raised more questions, he says.
The 28-year-old Mississauga man died in hospital on January 9, 2020, two days after he was shot in the side of the head during an attempted arrest by six Peel police drug squad officers just outside the townhouse complex where he lived with his parents.