A Toronto police officer accused of assaulting a young Brampton man hours before his sudden death admitted on Wednesday that he tackled the 19-year-old to the ground but said he did so with “a reasonable amount of force,” part of a plan to arrest Chadd Facey for running a fake Apple watch scam.
“I didn’t football tackle him,” Const. Calvin Au said calmly, taking the stand in his defence on the third day of his high-profile assault trial and stressing he used no other force than was necessary.