A Toronto police officer sentenced to jail in the assault of a young Black man will make his first appearance at the police tribunal today.
Posted Dec 08, 2020, 06:10AM EST
A Toronto police officer sentenced to jail in the assault of a young Black man will make his first appearance at the police tribunal today.
Const. Michael Theriault was sentenced to nine months in jail last month for beating Dafonte Miller in Whitby, Ont., in December 2016.
He now faces a disciplinary hearing before the Toronto Police Service Tribunal.
Theriault has been suspended without pay since the sentence was issued on Nov. 5, after being suspended with pay since his arrest.
Prosecutors alleged during the trial that Theriault and his brother beat Miller with a metal pipe, rupturing his eye among other injuries.
Ontario Superior Court Justice Joseph Di Luca said Theriault’s crime further degraded the Black community’s trust in the police.
