The Bureau of Independent Investigations (BEI) will investigate an intervention carried out on Sunday morning by the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM), during which a man lost consciousness after being forcibly restrained.
The arrest took place around 5:10 a.m., Sunday morning, in front of a room located on Boulevard de Maisonneuve Ouest. The police had been called to the scene because of an altercation between several people on the sidewalk, preliminary information from the BEI indicates.
The police would then have wanted to arrest a 25-year-old man, but the latter would have resisted.
The officers would therefore have used force to subdue him, but the man would have fallen to the ground and hit his head. He would have momentarily lost consciousness, according to the BEI.
The arrested man was taken to a hospital where he was in stable condition later Sunday morning.
Five BEI investigators were assigned to look into the circumstances of the event, while the parallel investigation was entrusted to the Sûreté du Québec.
The BEI investigates each time a person dies, sustains a serious injury or is injured by a firearm used by a police officer during an intervention or while in custody by a police force.
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