Toronto police under investigation after teen boy injured during arrest: watchdog

TORONTO - Ontario's police watchdog has launched an investigation into the serious injury of a 14-year-old boy during an arrest at a Toronto transit station last month. According to the Special Investigations Unit (SIU), a group of youths had allegedly failed to pay their transit fare at the TTC Finch West station around 3:30 p.m. on October 7.

Two officers confronted the youths, resulting in an interaction with the teenager. The boy was subsequently arrested, released, and later hospitalized with a serious but non-life-threatening injury. The SIU has assigned three investigators to the case, designating one subject officer and one witness officer. Police learned of the injury on October 9 and reported it to the SIU on the same day.