Toronto police failed to get necessary judicial permission before forcing their way into a man’s home at 5 a.m. with a battering ram, a judge ruled in tossing the man’s gun charges.
Daveion Brown, 25 at the time, was in bed with his girlfriend in his basement apartment when six armed police officers stormed in early on Oct. 15, 2020, according to Ontario Court Justice Apple Newton-Smith’s Dec. 15 ruling.
, Toronto police officers racially profiled him and his friend when they questioned and later arrested the pair, claiming they had been loitering in an apartment building lobby. Justice Lori Anne Thomas also found the man’s right to counsel had been violated, and she threw out the firearm evidence as a result.
Oct. 15, 2020, was Project Sunder’s takedown day, and numerous people, including Brown, were arrested. In applying for the warrant, a police officer swore that they had information Brown had been involved in alleged firearms trafficking in May 2020, the offence for which he was arrested on Oct. 15 and which was later stayed by Newton-Smith. No evidence was actually seized at his home during the arrest.
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