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He refused to leave the property. Police were called and arrested the man for trespassing.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 14px;\"><strong><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45658\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone><\/strong><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The officer took the man\u2019s left arm to turn him around while he walked back toward the hospital doors. While Deputy Director O\u2019Brien accepted that the man\u2019s injury was incurred in physical interaction with the officer, she did not accept that the injury was attributable to any unlawful conduct on the part of the officer.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Full Director\u2019s Report (with Incident Narrative, Evidence, and Analysis &amp; Director\u2019s Decision):&nbsp;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/siu.on.ca\/en\/directors_report_details.php?drid=5001\">https:\/\/siu.on.ca\/en\/directors_report_details.php?drid=5001<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Don\u2019t miss out on Doppler!<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/dont-miss-out-on-doppler\/\"><u>here<\/u><\/a> to receive our email digest with links to our most recent stories.<br \/>\nLocal news in your inbox so you don&#8217;t miss anything!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"background: #5cb85c url('https:\/\/d1iczxrky3cnb2.cloudfront.net\/red_logo.png') no-repeat 37px; color: #fff; text-decoration: none; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; display: inline-block; font-size: 16px; padding: 15px 38px; padding-left: 75px; -webkit-border-radius: 2px; -moz-border-radius: 2px; border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0 1px 0 0 #1f5a89; text-shadow: 0 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);\" href=\"https:\/\/donorbox.org\/support-huntsville-doppler\">Click here to support local news<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45657\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Deputy Director of the Special Investigations Unit, Stacey O\u2019Brien, found no reasonable grounds to believe an Ontario Provincial Police officer committed a criminal offence in connection with the left [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1904,"featured_media":217718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - 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