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A provincial court judge sided with the family in a 2021 decision, and awarded Celik's parents and brothers a total of $30,000 in damages.
Quebec's Court of Appeal has upheld a ruling that the BEI issued a biased press release.
The Quebec Court of Appeal is upholding a decision that found the province's police watchdog, the BEI, 'lacked impartiality' in its description of a Montreal police intervention involving the death of a young man.
A decision by Quebec's director of criminal and penal prosecutions (DPCP) not to charge the officers involved in the police response that led to a man's death must be reviewed by an independent committee, the Ligue des droits et libertés (LDL) pleaded Saturday in light of a coroner's report.
The coroner says the force used by police was unnecessary and that none of them had received training in de-escalation tactics or in strategies to deal with people in crisis.