Sixteen-year-old Ryley Bauman and his mother, Laura Hawthorne, at a playground.
RCMP officers who arrested Ryley Bauman at a St. Albert playground will not face criminal charges even though Alberta’s police watchdog says the 16-year-old was mistakenly identified as a drug user and unlawfully detained.Sixteen-year-old Ryley Bauman and his mother, Laura Hawthorne, in late October 2022. The teen was arrested Oct. 2, 2022, after RCMP were called to a St. Albert, Alta., school playground. RCMP officers who arrested an autistic 16-year-old at a St.
"If a police officer arrests an individual without the proper grounds, they may be committing the offence of unlawful confinement. If force is applied in the arrest, the officer may also be committing an assault," Matthew Block, ASIRT's assistant executive director, said in his report.
In a statement to CBC on Wednesday, Aaron Krause and Laura Hawthorne said there should be repercussions for the harms their son suffered in custody. The first officer arrived about 30 minutes later and found Ryley playing in the sand and on the swings.Ryley walked away from the officer and left the park.
The two additional officers believed they were preparing to apprehend a different suspect, a second man who was "high on drugs and known to be combative with police." Audio recordings reveal the responding officers used the names of the two drug suspects interchangeably during the arrest. One officer suggested the suspect was drunk. Another said the person they thought they were arresting had once "snapped a guyʹs neck."
Ryley was taken to the RCMP detachment. Inside the police vehicle, he kicked the door and hit his head repeatedly against the partition between the front and rear seats.
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