A 32-year-old man is going through a number of charges after an allegedly stolen Hummer collided with a number of police cruisers in Toronto’s Moss Park neighbourhood Thursday evening, police say.
Toronto police say the incident occurred within the space of Richmond and George streets simply after 10 p.m.
Officers tried to conduct a site visitors cease on the Hummer and the accused drove the car into a number of police automobiles, Const. Laurie McCann stated in an electronic mail Thursday.
A video obtained by CBC Toronto reveals the Hummer being boxed in by two police cruisers on a metropolis avenue whereas a number of officers with weapons drawn strategy on foot.
Police allege the Hummer was stolen. Officers started following the car after their automated licence plate reader notified them of a stolen car near their location, Toronto police stated in a information launch Friday.
Chelsea Bradshaw, who lives on the road the place the person was arrested, stated she and others in her residence noticed the Hummer rushing down the road with police in pursuit.
“All of us run over to the window, after which it is, like, actually out of the film, like, automobiles sprinting down,” Bradshaw stated. “Then they’re ramming into the police. It was simply insane.”
The person was taken into custody and nobody was injured within the incident, police say.
The person now faces eight charges, together with theft of a motorcar, assaulting a peace officer and failure to cease for police, police stated in Friday’s information launch. He was scheduled to seem in court docket for a bail listening to Friday morning.
Toronto Police Affiliation president Clayton Campbell stated Friday that the person was out on bail and has 75 prior prison convictions.
CBC Toronto has been unable to substantiate that the accused has prior prison convictions or that he was out on bail. Toronto police stated in an electronic mail that they don’t launch details about an individual’s prison historical past. One of many charges the accused faces is failure to adjust to a launch order.
Campbell stated Toronto Police Affiliation is continuous to name on the federal authorities to behave on bail reform.
“That is somebody that must be held in custody, [that] should not be out on the streets of Toronto,” he stated.
Ontario Transportation Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria equally responded to the incident with requires bail reform Friday.
“The federal authorities must do its job and repair our damaged bail system so we will maintain harmful criminals behind bars and off our streets,” he stated in a submit on X.
