James Bishop was arrested by Toronto police following a trespass complaint at the Scarborough YMCA, where Bishop was a suspended member./ Torstar News Service

James Bishop suing Toronto police and YMCA over ‘violent’ arrest
Published on Saturday July 07, 2012
Video: Arrest of James Bishop for trespassing
On Jan, 11, 2011, Toronto police were called to the Scarborough YMCA after a complaint by staff involving James Bishop, a suspended gym member who was playing basketball with his son. The ensuing arrest was captured on a YMCA security camera.
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Jim Rankin
Staff Reporter

A YouTube video of the arrest of a Toronto man on a basketball court by five Toronto police officers — showing multiple baton and elbow blows — has generated 48,000 views and nearly 500 comments, both pro- and anti-police.

Since the video was posted last July, many simply wonder what the man must have done to deserve such an arrest.

The man — black, with dreadlocks tied back, and dressed for the court in white shorts and T-shirt — is seen corralling the ball after a missed shot when four officers surround him. After some discussion that can’t be heard in the soundless video, they take him down.

York University sex assaults: 3 attacks follow same pattern
 Published on Saturday July 07, 2012 
Alexandra Bosanac
Staff Reporter

Police are searching for a suspect after three women were sexually assaulted on the York University campus.

All three assaults on July 5 and 6 occurred as the victims left a TTC bus stop in front of Vari Hall, a student concourse. Only one of the victims is a student, police said.

In each case a man attempted to engage the victims in conversation before they were assaulted.

The victims described the attacker as a 6-foot black man with a thin build and a short black Afro haircut. He was last seen wearing dark jeans, a green shirt and a blue and orange baseball cap.

Courtesy of Luke Rusch Abdulle Elmi died of multiple gunshot Thursday morning. Police have not linked his death to the Eaton Centre attack, where his cousin was killed.

Homicide victim moved to Toronto to escape violent Minneapolis neighbourhood
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Courtesy of Luke Rusch
Abdulle Elmi died of multiple gunshot Thursday morning. Police have not linked his death to the Eaton Centre attack, where his cousin was killed.
Yamri Taddese
Staff Reporter

Years before Abdulle Elmi was gunned down in a quiet Etobicoke street, his family decided it would be safer for the University of Minnesota student to leave his troubled Minneapolis neighbourhood and move to Toronto with his grandmother.

Elmi, 25, died of multiple gunshot wounds to the torso Thursday morning. He was the cousin of Eaton Centre shooting victim Ahmad Hassan.