Video circulating on social media shows an incident that occurred during an arrest at a Toronto plaza over the weekend. <\/p>\n
Toronto police say they are aware of a video that has surfaced online which shows a cruiser running over a suspect and an arresting officer following an incident at a North York plaza this weekend.<\/p>\n
In a statement to CTV News, police say they were called to Jane Park Plaza on Nov. 1, south of Jane Street and Eglinton Avenue West, for reports of a person armed with knives who was actively damaging vehicles.<\/p>\n
In the short, 43-second video posted to social media, a suspect can be seen walking away from the officers as a conducted energy weapon is deployed to subdue them. As the suspect and an object they were holding fall to the ground, the officers move in to make the arrest.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs officers moved to take the suspect into custody, another officer arrived on scene to assist,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n
As that officer leaves their police vehicle to assist their colleagues; the cruiser continues to roll towards, and makes contact with, the group.<\/p>\n
\u201cDuring this response, the officer\u2019s vehicle inadvertently rolled forward into both the suspect and one of the arresting officers,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n
The officer then tries to push the vehicle back with their colleagues, to no avail, before jumping back into the cruiser.<\/p>\n
Once the officer gets back in the vehicle, they accelerate forward and run over the suspect and the officer who was on the ground, who screams at their colleague to \u201cback up.\u201d <\/p>\n
As the cruiser reverses, police complete the arrest and the officer who was pinned limps away holding their knee.<\/p>\n
Paramedics assessed both individuals, neither of whom sustained serious injuries. <\/p>\n
The SIU says it has not been notified of this incident, likely because no serious injury was sustained.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s unclear what charges the suspect is facing.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are actively reviewing the circumstances and are grateful there were no serious injuries during this dynamic incident,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Video circulating on social media shows an incident that occurred during an arrest at a Toronto plaza over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-259580","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}