Angry he’d been ripped off, a physically dominant off-duty Toronto cop wanted to teach Brampton man Chadd Facey a lesson when he forcefully took him to the ground — “pay back” for scamming police with a fake watch, a Crown prosecutor suggested on the closing day of Const. Calvin Au’s assault trial.
Pushing back on Au’s claim that he was making an arrest for selling his colleague a counterfeit Apple watch, Crown prosecutor Sean Horgan put forward his own narrative of the events of April 26, 2021, suggesting that when Au brought Facey to the ground near a Brampton park he had no intention of following protocol and was instead exacting street justice.