“It's just so hard to let it go. I mean, everyone is telling me, ‘you have to move on,’ but I know someone is just not here [anymore]. So I don't know how I will move on." That’s what Umar Zameer, the man recently acquitted in the death of a Toronto police officer, told CTV News Toronto in a sit-down interview on Tuesday. A jury found the 34-year-old accountant not guilty on Sunday following a weeks-long trial that looked at the events of July 2, 2021, when Toronto Police Det. Const....
Toronto's Chief of Police has clarified a statement that he'd hoped for "a different outcome" made just after Umar's Zameer acquittal, telling reporters Tuesday he supports and accepts the jury's finding in the five-week trial. “Let me be crystal clear: I support and accept the verdict of the jury,” Chief Myron Demkiw said at a news conference at Toronto police headquarters. “I have always been a supporter of the justice process, including all elements of the system that leads us towards...
Two Buena Park police officers used excessive force when they fatally shot a 19-year-old man suffering from a mental breakdown, a Santa Ana jury found this week and subsequently awarded his mother $3.5 million in damages. Officers Bobby Colon and Jennifer Tran shot and killed 19-year-old David Sullivan on Aug. 19, 2019 when they confronted him after he stole a vehicle from his workplace, according to lawyers for the victim's family. Sullivan, who was shot multiple times, was unarmed. The...
Toronto’s police chief has asked that Ontario Provincial Police conduct an “independent review” after the judge in the Umar Zameer trial raised concerns about the reliability of officer testimony. Superior Court Justice Anne Molloy previously told jurors that the police officers’ testimony that was at the centre of the case against Zameer didn’t match the physical evidence and advised them to watch out for possible collusion. Zameer was ultimately found not guilty of first-degree murder...
Christian Glass was shot dead in June 2022 by then-Clear Creek Deputy Andrew Buen after calling 911 when his car was stuck: That much was never in dispute. On Friday, a jury found Buen guilty of reckless endangerment – but couldn’t agree if he was guilty of murder.
A Lafayette jury has reached a decision in the Joshua Willis murder trial. Willis was the second suspect on trial for 2016 murder of Ashley Metz and Brouklynn Hill.
Ontario's police watchdog is investigating the separate deaths of two men in Toronto. According to the Special Investigations Unit (SIU), a 23-year-old man was initially apprehended by Peel Regional Police in Brampton on April 25. The SIU said officers received a call for service at the Circle K near Chinguacousy and Mavis Roads, and when they arrived, they located a person of interest. "Upon querying his name, they realized the man was wanted by the Toronto Police Service (TPS)," the...
Three men were killed and burned in an SUV in a suburban Orange neighborhood and a fourth man was shot to death on a drive to Fontana.
Three men were killed and burned in an SUV in a suburban Orange neighborhood and a fourth man was shot to death on a drive to Fontana.
Toronto's police chief has yet to apologize for the doubt he cast on a man's innocence when commenting on his acquittal, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association said Thursday as it asked the civilian body overseeing the force whether it thinks the chief's comments were appropriate. The CCLA said it has also asked the Toronto Police Service Board what steps it will take to ensure Chief Myron Demkiw and other police force members don't “publicly malign bail decisions or criminal verdicts in...
SEATTLE >> Jury selection began Monday in the trial of a suburban Seattle police officer charged with murder in the death of a 26-year-old man outside a convenience store in 2019 — the third person the officer had killed in the past eight years.
A man has been transported to hospital in serious condition after police say he jumped on the subway tracks at Sherbourne Station while attempting to flee from officers. According to police, officers were called to the downtown subway station at around noon for reports that a man was assaulting a woman on the subway platform. The man, police allege, fled from responding officers and jumped on the tracks, where he sustained an injury. It is not yet clear how the man was injured. ...