Toronto Police Taser

• Man seen on video pointing knife in Toronto library and being tasered by police charged

  Officers were called to the Toronto Reference Library Monday afternoon after receiving a report of an altercation between the suspect and a library patron.

  Crime

  Apr 2, 2019
  
• Police watchdog finds misconduct in arrest of Toronto man filmed on camera

  In a letter by the Office of the Independent Police Review Director, it said two allegations of unlawful exercising of authority and discreditable conduct have been “substantiated” as “serious.”

  Canada

  Aug 10, 2017
  
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• Toronto man files formal complaint over threat of cellphone seizure by police

  A man who videoed Toronto police officers threatening to seize his cellphone for recording an arrest has filed a formal complaint.

  Crime

  Jan 26, 2017
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• Toronto police issue apology on Twitter after officer’s AIDS comment caught on video

  A day after a video was posted online in which a Toronto police officer tells a bystander filming a police arrest that the “(suspect) is going to spit in your face, you’re going to get AIDS,” the police service issued an apology on Twitter.

  Crime

  Jan 26, 2017
• WATCH: Police threaten to seize Toronto man’s phone as he films officer Tasering prone suspect

  Toronto police are investigating after a video shared by a man appeared to show an officer Tasering and planting his foot on an assault suspect as he yelled, "Stop resisting," before two other officers threatened to seize the man’s phone while he recorded the arrest.

  Crime

  Jan 25, 2017