19-07-2025
Six officers. Repeated Taserings caught on video. Why a judge is calling this man's arrest by Peel police ‘degrading and painful'
Peel Regional Police officers 'brutally' assaulted a man they had no lawful authority to arrest, using Tasers, a baton and pepper spray in a way that was 'demeaning, disproportionate and not justified,' a Brampton judge has found.
'The excessive force the police employed ... was shocking,' Superior Court Justice Faisal Mirza wrote in a 117-page ruling released last week, in which he found the officers, influenced by racism, committed multiple breaches of the Charter in the arrest of a man in a hotel parking lot in Brampton in November 2022.
