![]() ![]() The teen denied that he swore or spot at the officer. The officer claimed that the teen spat at him and swore at him, further giving him grounds to arrest B.A. and had placed him under arrest for not identifying himself. Within 30 seconds of their approach, Lourenco had separated one of the teens - identified only as B.A. The officers - Adam Lourenco and Scharnil Pais- were assigned to the since disbanded Toronto Anti-Violence Intervention Strategy (TAVIS), which placed officers in communities with high rates of crime, and sought to reduce crime in part, by enforcing trespassing laws. While the teens were still walking through the Toronto Community Housing complex on Neptune Drive where they lived, two officers pulled into the parking lot in an unmarked police vehicle. The decision relates to an incident dating back to November 21, 2011.įour teens aged 15-16, two of them brothers, had just left one of the friend’s homes where they had been playing video games and were walking to a mentoring program at a nearby community centre in the Lawrence Manor area, according to the proceedings. An Ontario policing tribunal has found a Toronto police officer guilty of discreditable conduct for pointing a firearm at two Black teens who were then arrested outside the Toronto housing complex where they lived more than a decade ago, overturning the decision of another tribunal which found him not guilty. ![]()
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