Toronto cops face formal complaint for arrest incident caught on video
TORONTO — A man who took cellphone video of an incident in which police were making an arrest has filed a formal complaint, alleging the officers threatened to confiscate his phone if he didn’t stop recording.
Waseem Khan said he witnessed the incident Tuesday when he and his wife were in their car about to drop off their son at a daycare in downtown Toronto.
Khan said he saw a police officer kick a man in the head and decided to get out of the car and record the incident.
The cellphone video, which Khan later gave to local television station CityTV, shows several police officers standing by a man who is lying face down on the street. Then Khan can be heard saying an officer used a stun gun on the man. The video appears to show the same officer stamping on the back of the man’s leg.