Ontario's Special Investigations Unit (SIU) has terminated an investigation into allegations that Windsor police seriously injured an elderly man during an interaction in July 2025, after medical records failed to corroborate the claimed injuries.
Incident details
The complaint stemmed from a July 27, 2025 call by Transit Windsor regarding a man yelling and refusing to exit a bus after being directed to do so by the driver. Officers removed the man from the bus and transported him home. Video footage captured the incident in part, showing officers removed the man without the use of force, according to SIU deputy director Stacey O'Brien's report.
Claim and medical evidence
The man filed a claim with the Law Enforcement Complaints Agency on Feb. 26, 2026, alleging he suffered elbow and wrist fractures during the interaction with officers. However, medical records did not document any injury during hospital visits close to the incident. O'Brien noted that a fractured elbow was documented several months later, at which time the man reported he had fallen.
“Available records do not document any serious injury associated with the earlier interaction with police,” O'Brien said in her report. “On this record, there being no indication of any ‘serious injury’ within the mandate of the SIU, the unit was without jurisdiction to investigate the incident.”
SIU mandate
The SIU is an independent government agency that investigates the conduct of municipal, regional, and provincial police officers, as well as officers with the Nishnawbe Aski Police Service, special constables with the Niagara Parks Commission, and peace officers with the Legislative Protective Service, when their actions may have resulted in death, serious injury, sexual assault, or the discharge of a firearm at a person.
