Photos of Adam Nobody showing injuries that he claims were caused by Toronto Police during the G20 protest in June 2010.
Two Toronto police officers investigated for allegedly roughing up Adam Nobody during last June's G20 summit are at the centre of a brutality accusation in a separate case.
What's more, the Special Investigation Unit's file on the pair, Detective Constable Todd Storey and Detective Constable Luke Watson, may be released in court.
Mr. Nobody was taken to the ground and arrested by several officers at Queen's Park on the afternoon of June 26. The SIU, the arm's-length body that investigates - among other things - incidents of violent interaction with police, charged a uniformed officer allegedly involved with assault after witnesses produced videos of the incident.
The 27-year-old alleged he was also beaten a second time by two plainclothes officers, Det. Constables Storey and Watson, behind a police van away from public view. The SIU investigated both men in that incident, but ruled there was no evidence to corroborate Mr. Nobody's contention and that his injuries - a broken nose and shattered cheekbone - had more likely been caused during his initial arrest.
The officers' identities were revealed publicly for the first time this week when they were named in connection with the case of Abbas Jama.
He accuses the pair of punching and kicking him in the head as he lay handcuffed on the ground on June 24, 2009. Mr. Jama, now 26, was arrested that day outside of a high-rise apartment building on Capri Road and the East Mall in Etobicoke. He faces several weapons-related charges.
On Tuesday, his lawyer asked a judge to order the release of an SIU file on its investigation into the two officers in Mr. Nobody's case.
"What we have before us, I would submit, is a strikingly similar back pattern, involving the same officers and a person in custody," said Mike Leotold in court, arguing the SIU's investigation might point to "a pattern of being cuffed, face-down and kicked, as my client alleges and as Mr. Nobody did."
However, Crown Attorneys and a lawyer for the police tried to block the release, saying that since the SIU could find no evidence the pair beat Mr. Nobody, the agency's files weren't relevant to the case at hand.
Joseph Markson, representing the officers themselves, further argued that, as police officers arrest hundreds of people in a year, it would be impossible to claim a propensity for brutality based on two allegations.
"There must be more than two isolated incidents to demonstrate propensity," he told Justice Rob Clark.
Court is expected to announce Friday if the SIU documents will be released.
Mr. Nobody accused the pair of punching and kicking him in the head as others laughed. Det. Constable Storey later accused Mr. Nobody of assaulting him on June 27, the day after the arrest, when the injured man was still in police custody. The Crown withdrew the charge in October.
Both officers appear to have worked out of 22 Division in south Etobicoke. Court documents and public police reports show Det. Constable Storey has been involved in a number of local busts over the past few years, investigating everything from an alleged clothing-theft ring to groups of kids spray-painting walls.
Det. Constable Watson briefly made the news in August of 2008 when he charged a man with impersonating an RCMP officer so he could pull over bad drivers.
Both officers are also being investigated internally by their own force, as are two other officers investigated but not charged by the SIU in Mr. Nobody's case, standard procedure under the Police Services Act. Police, however, will not divulge any details on the probe.
"We're not going to discuss individual investigations," said spokesman Mark Pugash.
Adrian Morrow