Chatham-Kent police officers have been cleared of any wrong-doing after a 34-year-old man suffered a broken nose while he was being taken into police custody in July last year.
A report from the director of the Special Investigations Unit says the man was taken to the hospital for an assessment after he was arrested during a domestic assault complaint on July 4, 2017.
The report says that the man who was arrested allegedly hit his face on some patio stones while he was struggling with officers who were trying to handcuff him.
One of the officers at the scene also reported seeing the man banging his face on a plexiglass screen in the back of a police cruiser after he was arrested.
The director's report says given the nature of the call and the evidence that indicates the man who was being arrested was on drugs at the time, the force that the officers used on the man, which likely caused his injury, "progressed in a measured and proportionate fashion to meet and overcome the complainant’s resistance" adding that in his view, "there are no grounds for proceeding with charges in this case."
