Joseph Markson, lawyer for Officer Kenneth Pengelly (at the bottom), believes that this procedure is in some way part of the collective mourning after this tragedy.
Harry Black, lawyer for Grayson Cappus, insists on his client's isolation during the proceedings. A condition of his bail was that he could not speak to anyone in his team of 30 to 40 officers. However, the agents who work in these units are friends, he mentions.
For two years, he was unable to speak to any of his friends, then, after authorization, to only three people, the lawyer sued.
The results of the investigation determined that there was no reasonable prospect of conviction for the officers, OPP Association President John Cerasuolo said in an email.
Our agents did their job in accordance with their training
A quote from John Cerasuolo, President of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Association
No details on return to work police officers was not specified. It will be different for each of them, said OPP Sergeant Jason Folz during a press scrum Monday morning in Oshawa.
On November 26, 2020, police were attempting to intercept a man suspected of kidnapping his young son in Kawartha Lakes, approximately 180 kilometers northeast of Toronto.
According to the SIU investigation, officers attempted to intercept the 33-year-old father's pickup truck when it crashed into a police patrol car. the OPP and another car on Pigeon Lake Road.
A police officer who was standing outside the patrol at the time was seriously injured.
Three officers then opened fire , hitting the infant inside the van and his father, Jameson Shapiro, according to the SIU.
The child's death was observed on site. His father was taken to the hospital and died from his injuries about a week later.
According to recordings of the parents' conversations Police published two years after the events, the officers knew there was a baby in the van. x27;opening of a coroner's inquest into this matter.
With information from CBC's Sara Jabakhanji and Chris Glover< /em>