Umar Zameer trial: CCLA calls for action on police comments [Video]

Toronto’s police chief has yet to apologize for the doubt he cast on a man’s innocence when commenting on his acquittal, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association said Thursday as it asked the civilian body overseeing the force whether it thinks the chief’s comments were appropriate.

The CCLA said it is has also asked the Toronto Police Service Board what steps it will take to ensure Chief Myron Demkiw and other police force members don’t “publicly malign bail decisions or criminal verdicts in the future.”

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The association’s questions to the board came after Demkiw said on Sunday that police “were hoping for a different outcome” after a jury acquitted Umar Zameer in the death of an officer.

On Tuesday, the chief then said he wanted to be “crystal clear” he accepts and supports the jury’s verdict, but the CCLA said he …