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The province's Special Investigations Unit has cleared two Niagara Regional Police officers in an incident involving a 55 year old man.
The SIU's director says he has found no reasonable grounds to find the officers committed a criminal offence in connection with a concussion suffered by a suspect during an arrest in Thorold on April 17th, 2020.
The SIU launched the investigation after it was notified of the incident over a year later in December of 2021.
The agency says the officers went to a residence in Thorold following a call about the man making threats and harassing a woman.
Officers entered the man’s bedroom where they woke him.
It is alleged that before the officers left, the man was assaulted by one or both officers while he was in bed.
The man went to hospital on April 21, 2020, where he was diagnosed with a concussion.
Director Joseph Martino found that the evidence was insufficiently reliable to give rise to criminal charges in this case.
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