Cop cleared after man who made bomb threat at Mississauga Hospital has arm broken
Published March 24, 2022 at 4:53 pm
A Peel Regional Police officer has been cleared of any wrongdoing after a man who made a bomb threat at a Mississauga hospital last November had his arm broken while being subdued.
Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit (SIU), which probes incidents in which civilians have been injured during interactions with police, said today (March 24) it found “no reasonable grounds” to believe that the police officer committed a criminal offence in connection with the Nov. 23 incident inside the emergency department at Mississauga Hospital.
According to the SIU, a 43-year-old man entered the hospital ER shortly after 10:30 p.m. and told hospital staff that he had a bomb. A flashing red light that was strapped to his ankle caught the attention of both medical staff and hospital security.
A short time later, one of the Peel police officers responding to the call, in an attempt to arrest the man, shot the suspect with four Anti-Riot Weapon Enfield (ARWEN) rounds as he stepped outside the ER for a cigarette.
The weapons, used by many police forces in Canada and the U.S., fire plastic projectiles.
One of the fired rounds is reported to have fractured the man’s arm.
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In rendering his decision, SIU director Joseph Martino accepted that an ARWEN projectile broke the man’s arm, but added there were no reasonable grounds to believe that the officer conducted himself in any way but lawfully in the incident.
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