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Why Should We Live in Fear? Is it Because We Don’t Have a Police and Justice System to Protec Us?
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Neighbours mourn man who died after 'disturbing' arrest by Ottawa police

Neighbours are in shock after Abdirahman Abdi ended up on life support after his arrest in Hintonburg.

It’s time that the society must understand the police are committing daily the most heinous crimes to vulnerable citizens across the country. Their psychopathic minds and state of terror involving brutality and assassinations are causing people to live in fear, not to mention also the police forces that should serve and protect us.

By: Haley Ritchie Metro, Emma Jackson Metro Published on Mon Jul 25 2016

Community organizations are moving in to help Hilda Street residents cope with the violent loss of a 37-year-old man who neighbours described as “peaceful” and a familiar face around the neighbourhood.

On Sunday, police received a 911 call at 9:30 a.m. from the Bridgehead coffee shop on Fairmont Avenue and Wellington Street West, where a man was reportedly causing a disturbance and touching a female patron.

Witnesses said Abdirahman Abdi got scared when police arrived and ran to his home – just three blocks north to an apartment building on 55 Hilda Street, where he had been living since arriving in Ottawa from Somalia in 2009.                                                                                                                       Witness 'shocked' by Ottawa Police arrest

• Man critically injured in police altercation, has died: SIU

Neighbours – many of them friends and family – then watched from their balconies as Abdi was forcefully arrested.

Witness Shukri Samater said people were yelling as Abdi was handcuffed and hit by officers on the stone steps just outside the building’s entrance.

“That was the most disturbing part of it all, what happened after he was handcuffed,” Samater said. “He was bleeding from the back of his head. He didn’t have a weapon, he wasn’t violent.”

Samater described him as “not well” and said mental health issues and a language barrier may have prevented him from understanding what police were saying.

Nimao Ali, friend of the family, called Abdi a "beautiful soul."

"He is a beautiful person. He was not 100 per cent healthy like us, he had a mental illness," she said.

"He was the kind of man that when you walk into the elevator he will hold the door for you, always had a smile on his face."

A 27-minute video recorded by a neighbour who lived upstairs has been published online, showing Abdi handcuffed and bleeding on the ground before paramedics eventually arrived. The video begins after the arrest and alleged beating.

Another neighbour said he recorded the arrest but is not making it public out of respect to the family.

“He is very much a very present figure on the street,” said Leslie Emory, executive director of OCISO immigrant support services. “He walked a lot.”

Abdi was a frequent client of Emory’s organization. OCISO is helping arrange crisis councillors for witnesses and neighbours who have been traumatized by Sunday’s events.

– With files from Emma Jackson and Joe Lofaro

WHAT IS THE SIU?

The Special Investigations Unit is a civilian-led law enforcement agency that investigates incidents of death or injury between police and civilians.

It has jurisdiction over 53 police forces across Ontario, covering about 26,000 officers. It can lay criminal charges.

When does the SIU step in?

When a civilian dies or suffers a serious injury while in contact with police, the SIU takes over the investigation to determine if there was any wrongdoing on the part of the officers.

“Serious injury” could include everything from a broken bone to vision or hearing loss, and includes sexual assault.

The SIU is usually called in by the police force involved, but it can also be notified by members of the public.

The unit doesn’t deal with other complaints about police conduct, like racial profiling, harassment or corruption.

Who has to talk to the SIU?

Subject officers – the officers under investigation – don’t have to submit to an interview or hand over their notes, similar to a criminal suspect’s right to not self-incriminate. But witness officers are compelled to co-operate, and must submit their notes, too.

In this case, two subject officers and five witness officers have been identified.

How long will the investigation take?

Every case is different, but they can range from a few weeks to many months, according to SIU spokesperson Jason Gennaro. In this case, since the chase took place over a few hundred metres, there’s a lot of ground to cover and many witnesses to canvass.

How often does it lay charges?

The SIU investigated 266 cases across the province in the 2014-2015 fiscal year and criminal charges were laid in 13 cases, a rate of 4.9 per cent.

Several Ottawa Police officers have faced charges in recent years. Two officers were charged with assault after a man in custody was injured in May 2014. Another was charged with dangerous driving after a high-speed car chase sent a suspect to hospital in February 2015.

And three officers were charged with criminal negligence and breach of duty after three paramedics were seriously injured during a training exercise in Kanata in June 2014.