News Release

SIU Investigating Arrest of Man following Scuffle Outside a Toronto Nightclub

Case Number: 17-TCI-264   

Mississauga, ON (18 September, 2017) ---
The province’s Special Investigations Unit is investigating the circumstances surrounding the arrest of an 18-year-old man outside a nightclub in Toronto early Saturday morning.

Preliminary information suggests the following occurred:
  • Around 2:30 a.m. on Saturday, September 16, 2017, an 18-year-old man was involved in an altercation with security staff at a nightclub on Pearl Street.
  • Toronto Police Service officers arrested the man.
  • During the arrest, the man suffered an arm injury.  He was treated at hospital.
    
The nightclub is located in Toronto’s Entertainment District and investigators believe there were a number of people in the area at the time of the man’s interaction with police officers.

The SIU is urging anyone who may have witnessed the incident to contact the lead investigator at 1-800-787-8529. The Unit is also asking anyone who may have any video evidence related to this incident to upload that video through the SIU website.

If you or someone you know is an affected person in need of support, please call the Affected Persons Program General Referral Line at 1-877-641-1897 or click here for more information: siu.on.ca/en/apc.php

The SIU is an independent government agency that investigates the conduct of officials (police officers as well as special constables with the Niagara Parks Commission and peace officers with the Legislative Protective Service) that may have resulted in death, serious injury, sexual assault and/or the discharge of a firearm at a person. All investigations are conducted by SIU investigators who are civilians. Under the Special Investigations Unit Act, the Director of the SIU must

  • consider whether the official has committed a criminal offence in connection with the incident under investigation
  • depending on the evidence, cause a criminal charge to be laid against the official where grounds exist for doing so, or close the file without any charges being laid
  • publicly report the results of its investigations

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