{"id":578865,"date":"2026-04-03T04:46:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T04:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/578865\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T04:46:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T04:46:20","slug":"siu-investigate-alleged-sex-assault-in-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/578865\/","title":{"rendered":"SIU investigate alleged sex assault in Hamilton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The province\u2019s police watchdog is investigating allegations of sexual assault after a woman was arrested at Cardi B\u2019s concert in Hamilton on Tuesday night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Special Investigations Unit (SIU) said security at TD Coliseum, near Bay Street North and York Boulevard, requested paid duty Hamilton police officers to assist them in removing a woman from the venue. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It is unclear why the woman was removed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The SIU said officers attended and \u201cused physical control to escort the woman from the venue.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It was not mentioned in the release why the agency invoked its mandate, but in an email to CP24, an SIU spokesperson confirmed that allegations of sexual assault were made. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The SIU is a civilian agency that investigates the conduct of police officers that may have resulted in death, serious injury, sexual assault, and\/or the discharge of a firearm at a person. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">No subject official has been designated at this time. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The SIU is asking anyone with information to contact its lead investigator at 1-800-787-8529. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The province\u2019s police watchdog is investigating allegations of sexual assault after a woman was arrested at Cardi B\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":["post-578865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578865","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=578865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}