A Toronto police tribunal previously cleared Const. Adam Lourenco of wrongdoing for pointing his gun at the unarmed “Neptune Four” teens in November 2011. That ruling was overturned in an appeal decision released this week.
A provincial oversight agency found a Toronto police officer guilty of professional misconduct for pointing a firearm at unarmed Black teens in a high-profile incident more than 11 years ago, where four Black teens were accosted by police on their way to a neighbourhood mentorship program.
The province says sex assault cases are ineligible for restorative justice because they’re too serious where does that all-or-nothing policy leave survivors?
Despite the positive feedback from all involved, allowing a criminal sexual assault case to be resolved through restorative justice has almost never been permitted again in Ontario since Marlee Liss went through the process in 2019.