A coroner’s report into the 2017 death of a man killed by Montreal police says officers put themselves in danger and provoked the use of force.
Police were unprepared when they arrived at the home of Koray Kevin Celik on March 6, 2017, in the Montreal neighbourhood of Île-Bizard, coroner Luc Malouin said in his report released Friday. Celik’s parents had called police because they wanted to prevent their 28-year-old son from driving a car while intoxicated.
Responding officers tried to subdue Celik with force, and his parents said they witnessed police repeatedly beat their son with their feet and knees before the unarmed man stopped breathing and was in cardiorespiratory arrest. He was pronounced dead in hospital….